The flood of #enshittification that #Broadcom unleashed upon #VMware and its customers after acquiring it, and its seismic waves in the whole IT supply chain, are a testament of how bad managers who seek for short-term revenue hikes without thinking of the long-term are a cancer, and walking ticking bombs for the tech industry.
We all know what Broadcom did to VMware after acquiring it. VMware was turned overnight into Broadcom’s cash cow, they hiked prices by 3x in some cases, scrapped perpetual licenses, forced all customers into more expensive subscriptions, said that they only wanted to focus on the most profitable customers and fuck everyone else, all while worsening customer support and providing literally zero added value and features to the product.
Basically a parasitic acquisition solely focused on sucking all the vital lymph out of another product - pure Oracle textbook.
When you play such stunts with individual customers, unfortunately, it works most of the times. Individuals don’t have much leverage, nor choice if there is too much concentration in a certain market. They may complain, but often they swallow the bitter bite.
Things are different when you play them in huge corporate products that are an integral part of the IT infrastructure we all use.
It turns out that among the businesses who were disgruntled when Broadcom suddenly cancelled their VMware perpetual licenses there was Tesco.
But Tesco didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly from Broadcom, of course. They acquired them through a reseller of hardware and software licenses - Computacenter. So Tesco sued them instead for failing to provide them the licenses that they were contractually bound to provide.
Computacenter, on its hand, didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly either. They were provided with the Dell servers they sold, as Dell was an authorized VMware reseller. So Computacenter sued Dell.
Dell, on its hand, says that it has no fault if Broadcom has suddenly changed VMware’s pricing model, and that they are the ones who broke contracts with the whole downstream supply chain. So Dell sued Broadcom.
And there we go. A chain of 3 lawsuits between 4 giants across the whole IT supply chain in order to call a parasitic company accountable.
What a mess. But I guess that the manager who proposed to squeeze annual recurring revenue got his/her fat quarterly bonus home after things seemed to work for the first year.
This is also your daily reminder that as a sysadmin you must use only FOSS products supported by the community and by strong foundations - and contribute back to them once their success becomes your success too.
Enough with the “but stability - but support - but licenses - but my manager” corporate bullshit.
The cost of writing your own little qemu CI/CD pipeline to spin up your virtual machines is much lower than the risk of your corporate subscription getting suddenly enshittified by chains of wrong financial incentives at any place in your upstream supply chain, and having to spend years of tears on expensive long-chain lawsuits.
And, even if things go bad, the cost of migrating out of proprietary and non-standard implementations is usually much higher than the cost of migrating to a compatible fork.
Well, I built a version of the NVSpeechPlayer NVDA driver for both 32-bit and 64-bit so it will indeed become compatible with 2026.1. I tried the alpha build here with it. It works. Not a lot of add-on level changes but we definitely have to make sure we load 64-bit DLLs and 32-bit ones from the right paths.
Good morning. In Portuguese words where you have m or n after a vowel and before a consonant, the m/n is pronounced more or less clearly depending on the dialect. In any case, I believe that pronouncing it would be more standard. Thus, in a word like "antes", instead of ˈɐ̃ŋt͡ʃys, it should be ˈɐ̃ŋnt͡ʃys. Likewise, in the word "amplo", it should be ˈɐ̃mmplʊ instead of ˈɐ̃mplʊ. Is it possible to do please?
I thought of creating a map similar to that you suggested yesterday, but then I would need to do at least five maps, one per vowel. Is it really the best approach?
@clv1 Hey! Yep, this is possible, and we can do it cleanly in the language pack — no engine change needed. What’s happening is that eSpeak often "compresses" those cases into a nasal vowel plus a single nasal marker before the consonant. So you get something like "nasal A + nasal marker + T…", which is why "antes" looks like it’s missing a clear "n", and "amplo" doesn’t have that stronger "m" feel. What I changed in the Portuguese pack is this: When eSpeak outputs that nasal marker before a consonant, we insert a clear "n” sound right after it. That makes "antes” come out closer to what you described (you can hear the consonant more explicitly). For cases like "amplo”, when a nasal vowel is followed by "m” before another consonant, we strengthen the "m” a bit (by doubling it), so it doesn’t get swallowed. The nice part: you don’t need "five maps, one per vowel”. You can write rules that target the nasal marker itself (or target "nasal vowel + m/n before consonant”), so it works across all nasal vowels. About making it a global engine rule: I wouldn’t rush that, because this is genuinely dialect/style-dependent in Portuguese. Some speakers expect a clearer "n/m” closure, others prefer the more nasalized vowel with a lighter consonant. Packs let us choose a "more standard / clearer” pronunciation for Portuguese without changing how other languages behave (or forcing one Portuguese style for everyone). eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
@clv1 If you want to experiment yourself, the easiest approach is: 1. identify the nasal marker eSpeak uses in these contexts, 2. add a single replacement that inserts “n” after it when the next sound is a consonant, 3. add another replacement that strengthens “m” only when it appears after a nasal vowel and before a consonant. If you share 5–10 words that are still off after this (pt-pt vs pt-br), we can tune the rule so it doesn’t affect cases like “ng” clusters where you don’t want an extra “n”.
What so is it only one person experiencing a bug with loading the new NVSapi? Or has nobody given it a try. Hmm. What if nobody gave it a try. Am I just an engineer imposter then? Oh no. My code quality sucks and my code is horrendous. Oh no. Freakin' out.
Today I joined the world of #Meshcore. @chiptronCZ, @RezzaBuh, @jan, @mirek spoke about it with such enthusiasm that I couldn't resist any longer. A good thing about getting two devices is that you can send messages to yourself, which is the best I could manage today. 😄
I'm joking a bit. I've been able to join the #brno channel and exchange a couple of messages there. It's probably further than some got with Meshtastic. :)
I've found another interface to the Wayback Machine like The Old Net called Wayback Classic. Just enter a URL and hit lookup, and the site shows you capture dates for the URL in a nice table format. Click on a month in the table to see entries for that year and month. Unlike The Old Net, WBC will take you to the actual web.archive.org entry rather than giving you a site within a site. wayback-classic.net/
Back in December I got a desperate email from this person. A woman who said her Instagram had been hacked and since she found my contact info in the app she mailed me and asked for help.
This actually reminds me of the time a friend of mine wrote a program to play Boggle. Some random woman found his blog post about it and began a six month email crusade against him for writing, "cheating software." I wonder if he still has those letters.
Back in 2020 we added MQTT support to curl. When curl 8.19.0 ships in the beginning of May 2026, we have also added MQTTS; meaning MQTT done securely over TLS.
Hey @Tutanota do you know mubi.com considers tuta.com email addresses invalid? I tried to convince their customer support its their problem but they're giving me some resonse which makes no sense. Is there something y'all can do?
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#bazar Mám to na Fb Marketplace a Bazoši , ale nabídnu i tady. Z důvodu nedobrovolného upgrade na DDR5 paměti , posílám do světa své dva totožné 2 kity DDR4 pamětí na 3200Mhz XMP i AMD EXPO kompatibilní každý kit má 2x8Gb - dohromady tedy 32Gb , jeden z kitů ještě v záruce na Alze . Cena je 2800,-
It's going to be fun when the MAGA base, already enjoying more expensive medical insurance, realises that Denmark is the US's main source of insulin, Ozempic and Wegovy, and the mad king has just increased the price by 10%.
if you have your schools in a seculer country, You can't force your students to adopt a specific religion, And you can't punish them for not doing so. Schools are for education, let them serve their only perpous.
If the school can't provide education/lessons for my relligion, well that's sad. I shouldn't have to waste my time sitting in lessons about other relligions I don't care about though, even if it's ethics. Honestly though, at least here I never had good relligion education (evangelic christian) anyway, so ngl could just remove it from schools all together, as you say it's for education not for relligion.
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With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.
Once again it's not about being European. It's about enabling freedoms. If one day Europe enshittifies software there as well, people are going to move.
Thanks for the extensive and in depth overview, this really helps 🤦♂️ For anyone who wants an unbiased list of alternatives, try goeuropean.org/ or european-alternatives.eu/
As long as it is open-source and the business model does not contradict, it does not really matter where the team is located that develops the code:
Therefore, GrapheneOS is a (I might say, the only) viable alternative mobile operating system. /e/OS' security standards seem to be lacking in some regards while SailfishOS, to my knowledge, is not open source.
My pain point still is the dependency on Google Pixel phones due to hardware requirements. I had hopes for @fairphone working towards this, but it seems it has currently (if at all) no priorioty.
I do like Surfshark for VPN. I didn't even know it was from Netherlands until I recently looked it up. I was about to switch, but I guess I'm good on that one.
As far as I know Qwant and Ecosia rely on US big tech companies for their results so it's useless. On the other hand, @Mojeek is European and truly independent
yeah, I get it, the main goal of these posts is marketing, but only one option for calendar and email, and from the very first party that produces them, well, thats just weird and off putting imo.
your competitor Proton is also a good alternative. Punkt is the best alternative to iOS and degoogled android. Incidentally Punkt also supports Proton by default.
What the EU needs is an equivalent to Apple Health / Google Fit, which integrates with Oura, Polar, Suunto, Withings, Yazio, Awareapp etc. etc.
Can they all cooperate to form this cloud data storage, protected by EU privacy, supported by subscription?
full boycott of capitalism is the only correct approach-- or do some people really think some capitalists are special and not prone to doing exactly what maga capitalists are doing now, because they've been allowed to get away with it? Genuinely curious if supporting capitalists seems to some minds to be a great way to deprive capitalists of power.
For smartphones and smartphone OS, I suggest to add Iodé operating system from France to your list, where you also can buy smartphones with Iodé OS. @iodeiode.tech/
@esoteric_programmer Yes, and because it just works. I know it's accessibility quirks and how to get around them. I have a workflow built entirely off GitHub tooling, and migrating that would be painful. So I don't.
O yeah, I made an issue about accessibility on forgejo. This apparently happens partly because the framework they use for the web ui doesn't implement aria stuff because the devs say it's not their problem, and partly it's also probably something they're doing wrong, but yeah, it's reported now at least
@esoteric_programmer You just justified my staying on GitHub even more. As soon as developers say "Not our problem" I'm not using that product. I don't have the energy for yet more Digital inclusion arguments, especially in FOSS spaces.
People, with #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Can I suggest that people also make a list like this one for their own countries? It is getting quite some traction here: berthub.eu/articles/posts/dash…
Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorbeeld door sancties over Groenland.
Imagine finally coming to the realization that the "progressive left" was right in saying "we want every state to have what Scandinavia has" and the practical result being, becoming a global pariah, and every state gets what Alabama has.
Last February, I did a thing, which I called #Movuary, in which I sequenced a new track (almost) every day of the month of February with my then relatively new Ableton Move groove box.
Most days, I actually tracked a new thing, but a few were previous sequences that got slight touch-ups.
That was a lot of fun, and got me to think about things in ways I otherwise wouldn't, so I think I'll do it again this year.
If you're curious, here's a very boring index page with everything I did last year, including Ableton bundles for you to play with in your own Move, Ableton Note, or Ableton Live.
BTW, I have still never actually used Ableton Live. Maybe I'll get around to that one of these days.
If anyone else here wants to do the same, posting a new track produced with Ableton Move every day in February using the #Movuary hashtag, let's make this a movement, or something.
Hoy estoy con el teorema de descomposición espectral en dimensiones finitas.
De momento probando lemas auxiliares, sobre operadores autoadjuntos, autovalores reales, y que el complemento ortogonal de un subespacio invariante es invariante.
"In a long screed [yesterday] morning, Trump’s social media account said the president is placing tariffs of 10% on all goods from the countries currently protecting Greenland after February 1, and that the tariffs will increase to 25% on June 1."
"Donald Trump is not blowing up NATO by accident. He is not threatening tariffs on European allies because he is impulsive. And he is not floating bizarre new global bodies where nations pay billions for access because he suddenly cares about peace.
This is a strategy. A crude one, but coherent. And it is designed to replace alliances with tribute."
"The monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.
Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers."
"French intelligence, working with Ukraine, deliberately fed false high-level intelligence to Trump’s regime to test whether it would leak. That information quickly surfaced in Russian channels, confirming their worst fears. As a result, France and other European services have effectively cut the United States out of critical intelligence flows related to Ukraine and broader security matters."
In response to someone's post about the fourth autocomplete result on Google for "How do I Convert to" being PDF, while the top three are religions, I hereby present the following, written by Claud. The Path of Divine Fulfillment (PDF)
The Path of Divine Fulfillment is a contemplative spiritual tradition that emerged from the synthesis of ancient wisdom teachings and modern existential philosophy. Founded in the early 20th century by the mystic philosopher Petra Dovzhenko-Fischer, PDF emphasizes the journey toward complete spiritual actualization through what practitioners call "the Three Compressions."
## Core Teachings
PDF teaches that human existence contains infinite potential that must be "compressed" into its most essential, portable form—much like distilling vast experiences into wisdom. The three stages of spiritual compression are:
1. **Preservation** - Maintaining the integrity of one's authentic self amid life's chaos 2. **Distribution** - Sharing one's gifts universally without losing their essence 3. **Fidelity** - Remaining true to one's spiritual core regardless of external circumstances
## Holy Texts
The central scripture is *The Universal Document*, a collection of 108 short meditative teachings that can be read in any order. Practitioners believe that each reading reveals different meanings depending on one's spiritual state. Secondary texts include *The Portable Wisdom* and *The Compression Sutras*.
## Practices
Adherents practice daily "formatting meditation," where they reflect on removing unnecessary complexity from their thoughts and actions. Weekly gatherings involve communal reading circles where members share interpretations of the same passage, celebrating the diversity of understanding that arises from a single source.
## Symbol
The faith's symbol is a simple rectangle containing a stylized tree, representing how boundless growth can exist within defined parameters.
Can we please make this happen for @ky0les who has been trying for days? Please #repost if you feel so inclined.
Sleepy #bounce #bonk #boing #bleep. Anyway... Still trying to make this happen for myself. They're taking costs owed now and need to be payed by Tuesday at the latest. I'm trying to get it done so I'm not the one holding everyone else up. Happy day. I am getting really burned out on having to do this. I am trying to raise funds to attend the Northwest Percussion Festival this year with my percussion ensemble. With my aid being taken away I have no funding in my college account to make this possible. This years show is especially meaningful to me. I will be performing my original marimba piece, Circles, live for the first time outside of school. The piece has already been published, and this will be its debut performance in front of an audience that isn't made of other college students, which is both exciting and a little surreal. While I am there, I will also be playing with the steel pan group, attending concerts and clinics, and spending time learning from and connecting with other percussionists. This festival is a big opportunity for growth, inspiration, and community. My fundraising goal is open ended. Any amount helps with travel, lodging, registration, and general expenses. If you are able to donate or share this, I would be incredibly grateful. Thank you for supporting my music and helping me bring this performance to life. Donations can be either sent on Cashapp or Venmo. Both usernames are ky0les. #mutualaid #mutualAid #percussion
Wir unterschätzen schnell, wie Social-Media-abhängig die Generation unserer Eltern teilweise ist. Sucht ist die einfachste Erklärung dafür, dass Friedrich Merz und die Hauptstadtpresse immer noch auf Twitter sind.
Das Fediverse ist genau so öffentlicher Diskursraum und hat kaum weniger Suchtpotential.
Die für mich plausibelste Erklärung, warum öffentliche und gemeinnützige Orgas immer noch kommerzielles Social-Media nutzen, ist fehlendes Verantwortungsgefühl für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des eigenen digitalen Handelns.
@FastSM Does the player not support seeking yet or am I missing sth? Also follow up to the bug where going to the Desktop when an edit field is open that edit field stays visually on the screen but doesn't refocus for NVDA, this happens with any dialog such as settings, etc, not just the post composer.
I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0
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Just decided to change a character’s name in a story from Dan to Jeff, so I did a find and replace. Problem is I didn’t think about the fact that Dan did a lot of dancing in the story, so now I’m finding and replacing Jeffce, Jeffced, Jeffces, and Jeffcing.
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