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Last night, I had a #weirdDream about a new product announced at NAMM, called the Absorbian. It was basically this dense, compact cube that had two handles you pulled apart, and it expanded into about a 8x8x8 block that completely absorbed any sound around it. Perfect for recording clean vocals in a busy industrial wearhouse, but small enough when folded that you could easily carry it in a purse. It was hollow in the middle, so you put whatever you wanted isolated inside the cube once expanded.
#weirddream
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Being human is just constant admin. Register this, fill out that, contact the business or person. I long to just exist outside of all of the noise. Put my shoes on and just walk the fields and Downs. Survey the ocean and stand in the salty breeze. Lay in a meadow and splash in a stream. Howl in the moonlight and weep against a tree. Make friends with a badger. Form an alliance with the birds. Go to war against the snakes. Create a new religion with the dirt folk. Lose my mind and smile at the sun as I fly away to a lost continent. Transubstantiate into a being of pure energy and beam myself throughout the cosmos. Drift past the observable universe and discover a new place where matter and physics no longer exist. Join with the universe and become god. Instead I have to do my stupid little emails.

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Wow. This is an intelligent and powerful speech.

It is shocking in its frank admissions. Especially coming from someone who was the head of the Bank of England.

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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

Watch live as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. Follow live updates: https://bit.ly/4...
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This is very serious, please share.

ICE agents are impersonating utility workers to lure people out of their homes.

Anna Anthro (@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social)

#OREGON: #ICE agents now posing as Pacific General Electric, NW Natural workers, officials warn “ #Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of thei…
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There is a surprising inconsistency with how columns are represented in spreadsheets I have never thought about. There is A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., BA, ...; if we assume that column indexes start from 0 (like rows), then A = AA = AAA etc.

That's clearly incorrect, so the table rows must be indexed from 0 while table columns are indexed from 1, right? No! If A=1, then Z=27, so AA=28, but we've already determined, that A stands for 1, so AA is basically 28 + 1. Ergo, column labels in spreadsheets are not indexes and they are pure nonsense. QED. :)

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Vím, že se opakuju, ale Rusko musí shořet na popel.

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V Kyjevě je milion lidí bez elektřiny, mrazy trvají

Kyjevská radnice hlásí kritickou situaci s vytápěním a elektřinou. Milion lidí je bez energie, 5600 bytových domů nemá dodávky tepla, 600 tisíc obyvatel z celkem třímilionové metropole už město opustilo. (NV)
Petra Procházková (Deník N)

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The more I use my phone rather than a computer, the more I’m really starting to understand that VoiceOver, as a screen reader, is fundamentally broken on the iPhone and I don’t think it can be repaired. I just had three cases where I opened an app, or navigated to a new screen, and voiceover jumped focus three times without me ever touching the screen. I also constantly have to navigate a typing delay. There is a significant delay now where VoiceOver will, on occasion, more than not, just randomly decide not to say the key my finger is navigating over when typing. It feels like everything about VoiceOver is very sluggish in this latest operating system version. I genuinely think that VoiceOver is broken in so many ways that it’s more advantageous to use a desktop and a desktop screen reader. Even with NVDA’s flaws, it’s 1 million times more useful than what I’ve just encountered. I don’t understand the blind folks that exclusively use an iPhone without a computer by choice. Those blind people have a fuck ton more patience than I do. #Apple
#apple

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(1/2) We are happy to announce a new milestone for transparency in #IzzyOnDroid: public metadata

Starting today, all info on all IzzyOnDroid apps is now publicly available on Codeberg in our new metadata repository: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repod…

You can now submit your updates to listed apps (e.g. AuthorName, links) directly via PRs – and we're looking forward to your contributions! We're now working on updating our documentation, to help you with this. Stay tuned!

=> continued…

Our repo browser now also links you to the corresponding metadata for an app, if you're curious or need to check something (e.g. whether automated update checks are enabled)

repodata

metadata for the Apps available at the IzzyOnDroid repo
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#izzyondroid

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Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-registered-more-than-ps380000-financial-interests-late_uk_69709305e4b084d70182d794?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms

The Reform leader registered more than £380,000 of financial interests outside of the accepted 28-day period.
Kate Nicholson (HuffPost)
@UK Government

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🔴 Wat gebeurt er als Trump met één druk op de knop alle Amerikaanse systemen van Nederlandse organisaties uitschakelt?

We deden onderzoek. Wat blijkt?

🎓 81.4% van de onderwijsinstellingen raakt toegang tot documenten en e-mail kwijt

🏛️ net als en 72.6% van de gemeentes

🏢 en 70.4% van de grootste Nederlandse bedrijven

Dit en meer kun je vinden op zijnwealautonoom.nl. Daar verzamelen we van ruim 13.000 Nederlandse organisaties bij wie ze hun websites en e-mail hebben ondergebracht.

Zijn we al autonoom?

Zijn we al autonoom brengt in kaart van welke organisaties het internet in Nederland het meest afhankelijk is.
Zijn we al autonoom?

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On this day in 1985, 41 years ago, Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up, experienced it's coldest temperature on record, -8 degrees F, or -22.22 degrees C.

I was alive for that, but being less than a year old at the time, don't have any memory of it.

My baby bedroom was the least insulated in that house, though, so that must have been fun keeping it at a reasonable temperature.

Mount Mitchell, NC recorded a temperature of -23 degrees F, or about -31 degrees C, on that same day.

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honestly, the janky-ass superflous animations & effects even with all the “reduce motion” #accessibility options enabled seem to exist only to slow down my previously very snappy recent-gen (n-2) #iPhone – this isn’t event planned obsolescence, it feels like hastened obsolescence to make the #Apple money printer go brrr just a little sooner than usual, as a treat 😤

on a device that has the hardware to support 120Hz refresh rates, why am I ever seeing folders & icons get visibly drawn on my screen? 🤪

#LiquidAss #enshittification on display yet again 💩

#Accessibility #apple #iphone #enshittification #liquidass

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Oh, cool. My NAS back at home is apparently suffering from Dying Power Supply Syndrome (DPSD) or something. It apparently improperly shut down twelve times yesterday, according to the logs.

Of course, it would do this just a few months after I spent over 2 grand replacing the storage on it with 8 new 12 TB hard drives, replacing the 6 TB drives that were all starting to die.

Looks like maybe a new NAS is in my future when I get back... whenever that is.

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Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.

I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.

My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.

I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.

One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.

As for some other stuff I enjoy #mythology, #transformers, #cats, #fantasy, #nature such as #flowers and #plants and #animals, #steampunk, #starwars, #photography, #art, #space, #cyberpunk and #scifi... there is more but I'm not writing them all.

You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...

Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.

#RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Introduction

#linux #art #cats #introduction #photography #scifi #cyberpunk #nature #fantasy #starwars #retrocomputing #animals #space #retro #steampunk #mythology #retrotech #plants #flowers #oldtech #ostan #transformers #retrotechnology #vintagecomputers

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Farewell to autumn: Danish Digital Ministry turns its back on Microsoft.

At the Danish Digital Ministry, all employees should be able to do without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.
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Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken

Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
Martin Holland (heise online)

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Sorry guys. I had to remove the timeline gaps system. It was just not working correctly at all, and was only causing issues and annoyances. Not sure if I will ever reimplement something like this in the future, however if it's of concern, you can disable caching entirely, at which point the app would load a fresh copy of the timeline upon every client start like before.

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Thank you for using FastSM! We update the app hourly to keep your experience running smoothely! For best results, keep your app up to date!
FastSM will never ask you to review the app. Mainly because it can't, because there is no review system attached to GitHub.
Anyway, This update includes but is not limited to bugfixes, performance improvements, new bugs, unintentional performance degradations, issues, disappointments, problems, issues, and many more issues. Please keep your updates turned on to experience all of this, and more! Our developers will never tell you that they are taking a nap, or mowing the lawn, unless, of course, they are indeed taking a nap, or mowing the lawn. Why our developers would be mowing the lawn in a changelog, who actually knows. Anyway, more bugfixes and performance improvements time! Please keep your updates turned on for more bugfixes and performance improvements! Thank you for using FastSM! We promise that as we continue to add more bugfixes and performance improvements, eventually we will add so many bugfixes and performance improvements that we will be forced to rename the app to SlowSM, or potentially even BuggySM. So stay tuned for this eventuality. Anyway, again we hope you enjoy using FastSM!

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I don't think I like this new world, you guys. Every time Youtube Music plays me a song I haven't heard before, I wonder if it's AI. Hmm, that's a lot of releases in a short time. Is the voice quality a bit odd because the track quality is low, or because I'm imagining it, or because it's AI? Wait, those rhymes are really weak. Did an LLM just spit those out?

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There are two primary reasons I like watching the output from Claude or Gemini, or any model for that matter: #1. you can learn some really cool shell tricks, #2. I love watching how it transforms my thoughts, e.g. from a markdown spec file, into a plan. Even the most careful planning on my part always has some gaps, high verbosity, etc. For that reason, I always request the model to ask followup questions.
#1 #2

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In today's world of autocorrect, why do so many places where people write from their phones always include contractions with missing apostrophes? You'd think any modern operating system would see "isnt" and immediately correct it to "isn't". Same for "ive", "dont", and so on. I can understand the apostrophe being multiple taps away, and so not getting added manually, but why wouldn't software put it back in?
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