in reply to Liam Erven

@lerven If you don't mind digital, I'd recommend the C.Crane CC Pocket portable. It has built-in speaker and also can play audio through stereo headphones.
It's AM, FM, NOAA weather radio.
FM sensitivity is improved when headphones or supplied wire antenna are attached.
For its size, it's quite sensitive on all bands and is quite selective, as well.
5 memory presets each band. Tune in the desired frequency, press and hold memory button until you hear beep.
Selectable AM filtering to improve selectivity by pressing 1 and 3 buttons to toggle through options.
Tuning is by up/down buttons, 10KHZ AM, can't remember FM steps.
75 hours battery life claimed on two AA batteries.
$74.95 on Amazon.
It's definitely a good stadium or arena use.
If you don't mind the digital and lack of tuning knob, it's a good choice for a small compact portable. Comes with ear buds and wire FM antenna.
Want more recommendations?

Trace shortcuts in the Windows File Explorer. I'm not sure when these were added.
Tested on Windows 11 25H2.
Control+windows+shift+l: produces a notification that a trace log is being generated, followed by a second one when the log finishes that has an option to open Feedback Hub to submit it.
Control+windows+shift+t: produces a notification that an error occured while getting a trace.

European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the EU. cigref.fr/technological-depend…

Mark Carney essentially said that the liberal rules based world order was a convenient lie everyone went along with because American hegemony opened up markets and sea lanes for them.

After decades in which the imperialist neoliberal order was not even questioned in the West, less than three weeks into it 2026, Canada, one of the biggest US vassals is saying this. 😆

weforum.org/stories/2026/01/da…

#canada #cdnpoli #geopolitics #liberalism #imperialism

What made me decide on a settings panel? Honestly, the consensus on the LegacyPitch is very, very mixed. I see that there's plenty of people who like the ESpeak style intonation, while others don't. So then I realized I can ship the packs with it off by default and people can toggle it somehow. Hmm. But how. It's going to be real good. Comboboxes are exposed in voice settings, but then you also have the choice to edit numeric values in a pack via the panel. At least, that's where this is headed.

Extremely cool concept from #Wero: use the #DMA to roll out a alternative contactless payment solution based on Wero instant SEPA transfers, with fallback to card payments for incompatible terminals.

An entirely independent, European payment solution.

#EUpol

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Our next major release is just around the corner! #LibreOffice 26.2 will be released in February, with many new features and improvements, thanks to our worldwide community. Help to test it, before the final release: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #openSource #freesoftware

OK, TIL (Today I Learned):

If "apt install" tells you "after this installation, XX GB additional disk space will be used" – that means that YOU SHOULD LOOK if that's available. Because, APT DOES NOT – it simply … well, stops working when the disk is full 🤦‍♂️

Have fun then cleaning up. Glad I ran a Timeshift backup immediately before…

(EDIT: it was `apt` in my case, not `apt-get`. But such a thing simply should not happen at all.)

#Debian #apt

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Wer wollte nicht schon immer mal bis zu 10 Lieblingssongs auf einmal hören? Ich hätte dafür jetzt das richtige Tool, auch wenn der eigentliche Zweck ein völlig anderer ist. 😄

MultiDeck Audio Player ist eine App für die simultane Wiedergabe von bis zu 10 Audiodateien oder Internetstreams. Seid gnädig mit mir, trotz beeindruckender KI-Unterstützung ist es meine erste GUI-Anwendung und enthält sicher noch Fehler.

Quellcod: github.com/schulle4u/multideck
Download für Windows: github.com/schulle4u/multideck…

RE: telescoper.blog/2026/01/19/bar…

Translation for Americans: a member of the Irish parliament (the Dail) who happens to be a barrister (an attorney specialising in advocacy in front of a judge, including criminal prosecution/defense) has formally written to the head of the Irish cybercrime unit setting out applicable charges against X/Grok and sternly requesting formal prosecution of that company on child pornography/trafficking charges.

in reply to Charlie Stross

If anyone wants more confirmation other than PasteBin, here's the Irish Independent's article on this, from yesterday.

independent.ie/irish-news/gove…

The Independent has been covering this quite a lot over recent days, and Barry Ward is not the only TD to speak up about this. Here's Niamh Smyth from the day before.

independent.ie/irish-news/elon…

Here's a Gardai rep speaking to an Oirechtas committee on the 14th.

independent.ie/irish-news/gard…

#Grok #BarryWard #IrishPolitics #Twitter #Garda

New language-pack setting: spellingDiphthongMode. Supported values right now: none (default) and monophthong. Detects “spelled-out acronym-like” words (heuristic: multi‑syllable, and every syllable is stressed), And it follows a vowel-like sound. It drops the offglide and marks the e as lengthened, so you get a long monophthong feel

I just saw a nice long email from the friend who visited us over the weekend telling me what a great t ime she had, the struggles of taking care of her mother who has dementia, and just wanting to chat in general. I realized the reason I was surprised to see it is because no one writes like that anymore, lol.

If anyone is looking for #DDR5 RAM at the moment, then you might want to jump on this offering from Amazon #UK.

Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6400MHz CL32, Overclocking Desktop Computer Gaming Memory, Intel XMP 3.0 / AMD EXPO, Black - CP2K16G64C32U5B

There is a used kit available from Amazon Resale for £181.20 🤯

amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQMLKVLS

#uk #ddr5