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A man was sitting on the plane next to a young woman, without further ado he began to talk about all the titles he had and his profound knowledge, the young woman only listened, but the man did not stop showing off all his knowledge.
As the young lady didn't say anything, the man told her:
-Let's chat.... I've heard that flights seem less long if you talk to the person next to you. The young lady who had just opened a book to start reading closed it slowly and said in a soft voice:
-What would you like to talk about?
-Well, I don't know... What about "nuclear physics"? he tells her in a mocking tone and showed him a big smile...
-Well, that seems to be an interesting topic, but first let me ask you a question... A horse, a cow and a sheep eat the same thing: grass; But, why is the sheep's excrement like small pellets, the cow's is a paste and the horse's looks like a ball of dry grass?
Why do you think that happens?
The man, visibly surprised by the young woman's intelligence, thought about it for a moment and said:
-Hmm... I have no idea.
The young lady replied:
-Do you really feel qualified to talk about nuclear physics, when you don't even know shit?

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I'm working on a crash in Firefox and was investigating to figure out why a particular decision was made. This led me back to a piece of code which was first written... 23 years ago... by someone at Netscape! The code has evolved a little since then, but it's basically the same, just with minor refactoring. And I'm about to rip out said code. Always blows my mind when something like this happens.

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Renee Nicole Goodā€™s family have released preliminary autopsy details.

Itā€™s bad.

She was shot three times and the first two shots were non lethal.

One to her forearm and one to her right breast which missed all major organs.

She could have survived that.

Jonathan Ross was well outside the path of the vehicle at that point and leaned into the driverā€™s side window to deliver the third shot.

It went through her left temple and exited the right side of her head.

It was murder. Plain and simple.

Every ICE agent who failed to render aid should be charged as an accessory, and Ross should be arrested immediately.

The government must stop covering for killers.

#abolishice #reneenicolegood #minnesota #immigration #uspol

#uspol #immigration #abolishice #minnesota #reneenicolegood
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Archos

@OttovonWenkoff jak se dělajĆ­ z holubÅÆ v nose pokličky, je minimĆ”lně -10 šŸ˜
@š•†š•„š•„š•  š•§š• š•Ÿ š•Žš•–š•Ÿš•œš• š•—š•— šŸ¾šŸšŸ‡šŸ”

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Iā€™ve been playing with Komplete Kontrol S61 MK3 for about a week, and Iā€™m not so sure about the default velocity curve or the keybed. The default velocity curve makes me trigger quiter notes more often than I intended, so I had to change. Iā€™m also used to a firmer stop at the bottom of the key travel, but this keybed feels more squishy than solid. I guess this makes it quieter when you play, but it feels pretty weird. Does anyone else have opinion on this, or is it just me? @FreakyFwoof
@Andre Louis

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Dotaz do plĆ©na, než se obrĆ”tĆ­m na odbornĆ­ky.
MĆ”m kombinovanĆ½ plynovĆ½ kotel (starĆ” Destila DPL 25) a 150l bojler. Ten je propojen s vodou, kterĆ” jde na ohřev radiĆ”torÅÆ. Oba kohouty jsou otevřenĆ©. Bojler se spĆ­nĆ” jen na tzv. nočnĆ­ proud.
ProblĆ©m je v tom, že voda je v něm prostě vlažnĆ”. Jak to, co je Å”patně? OdtĆ©kĆ” voda z bojleru do radiĆ”torÅÆ a už se nestihne ohÅ™Ć”t? Co mĆ”m jak ověřit?

Žena už je z toho nervnĆ­, asi zruÅ”Ć­m nočnĆ­ proud a budu platit o 10000 Kč ročně vĆ­c, aÅ„ mĆ”m klid.

Bojler s pÅ™Ć­tokem a odtokem vody z/do radiĆ”torÅÆ.
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@jan_petrus To kolik je pater je Ćŗplně jedno, buď je o Å”patně vyřeÅ”enĆ½, mĆ”Å” jen jeden topnĆ½ okruh, tak bÄ›Å¾Ć­ jedno čerpadlo pro vÅ”e a ochadĆ­ boiler. Když topĆ­Å” elektřinou musĆ­Å” zavÅ™Ć­t ty ventily u zĆ”sobnĆ­ku. Jinak budeÅ” ohÅ™Ć­vat elektřinou i radiĆ”tory. PoÅ”li mi tu fotku, možnĆ” bude stačit vždy jen něco zavÅ™Ć­t a pak otevÅ™Ć­t. Potřebuji jen juknout jak je to napojenĆ½.
Jestli tam je trojcestnĆ½ ventil a nebo jestli je to Å”patně a boiler je na okruhu topenĆ­, vlastně jako dalÅ”Ć­ radiĆ”tor.
@Jan Petrus

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Aha. NVSP Phoneme Editor updated to use the newer engine and packs, so people can edit away.
Also introduced: Pressing spacebar on fields in "edit phoneme" or editing pack settings brings up the edit dialog for it.
Also huge change: Now the various phoneme tuning parameters have human explanations that tell you what they are, so tuning should be made easier.
Download:
eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeEā€¦ (V4's going away in a little bit unless people find major bugs in this one)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1ā€¦ tonight brought you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Compressor: a lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor šŸ›”ļø

This toot comes delayed as a lot of RBs failed today. Luckily we were able to fix most of them already; for the remaining ones, issues are open with the corresponding devs.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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mirkobrombin

@TheEvilSkeleton @moshimotsu the issue is not the shell but the direction of the GNOME Apps which are part of the Environment. Plus the issue I have with GNOME OS `just existing*`, but that is up to me. I have to write a blog to really explain this last one šŸ¤—
@TheEvilSkeleton šŸ‡®šŸ‡³ šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø @Marcial šŸ‡ØšŸ‡·šŸ‡»šŸ‡Ŗ
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TheEvilSkeleton šŸ‡®šŸ‡³ šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

I'm not sure what you mean by GNOME OS "just existing", especially considering I use GNOME OS on my tablet and desktop nowadays and see plenty of reasons why it should exist (laptop is on Silverblue, but I plan to switch to GNOME OS some day)

I guess I'll wait to hear your detailed take on GNOME OS once you write the blog post ;). I've had a lot of issues with Vanilla OS with how outdated GNOME is, but also the unclear direction with how containers are pushed and the tooling around them, which were some of the reasons why I went straight to GNOME OS from Silverblue

@moshimotsu

@Marcial šŸ‡ØšŸ‡·šŸ‡»šŸ‡Ŗ
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Marcial šŸ‡ØšŸ‡·šŸ‡»šŸ‡Ŗ

@TheEvilSkeleton Maybe @mirkobrombin and I are misattributing GNOMEā€™s vision for its ecosystem to its vision for the shell.

Naturally the shell canā€™t be going LibAdwaita-only, as (looking from the outside in) I would figure many shell elements, like widgets/the dock/etc, are just using GTK4ā€”not to mention non-LibAdwaita apps still run on it. The ecosystem is what seems to be going LibAdwaita-only, both in GNOME shell, and elsewhere. I figure?

@mirkobrombin @TheEvilSkeleton šŸ‡®šŸ‡³ šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

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RE: fosstodon.org/@arcanechat/1159ā€¦

there is no backups for arcanechat.me no user data is kept in backups not even if it is already encrypted data, if the server is wipped all data is gone, but here is the twist, you will barely notice! your account will be magically restored as soon as you connect, and all your data is safely stored in your devices, in your pockets, not in some cloud a.k.a "someone else's computer"

as a #chatmail relay operator this gives peace of mind you don't get with other selfhosted chat solutions


ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family
arcanechat.me

ArcaneChat

2026-01-22 01:06:01

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wait, you guys make backups?

#chatmail
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If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.
#linux #uganda

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RE: mindly.social/@Tamasg/11593603ā€¦

I concur; YAML is more readable; you chose right.

Tamas G

2026-01-22 00:58:27

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I bet a lot of my programmer friends are going, "why didn't you just use JSON and serialize settings that way?" Y'all, I did consider good ol JSON, because yes, it does have a faster compute time, but before the phoneme editor and NVDA driver settings, JSON would have been a lot less human-readable. YAML does suck for indents, I agree, but so does Python, if you are thinking on those lines, and good code indenting is honestly just good code hygiene if you think about it, why not keep that alive.
I read them on a Braille display a lot, I recognize not all people do, but poorly indented code in Braille VS well-indented is the difference from knowing quickly where functions begin VS trudging code as though it were a thick foggy swamp. And I don't like that feelin'.

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I am currently using Airpods Pro 2 as hearing aids, with everything cranked as much as it can be cranked. It's probably not the best thing for my particular condition, but it works, mostly, until I can do something better, which is not now.

I have a clock in this room, which chimes every hour through a speaker.

Something about that sound freaks them out a little, and, when I also have screen reader speech or something else going at the same time, I get an almost ghost vocoder effect, where certain frequencies get modulated by the chiming clock.

It makes it almost sound like the clock is speaking, or ghost aspects of it are, anyway.

It's a bit weird.

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I bet a lot of my programmer friends are going, "why didn't you just use JSON and serialize settings that way?" Y'all, I did consider good ol JSON, because yes, it does have a faster compute time, but before the phoneme editor and NVDA driver settings, JSON would have been a lot less human-readable. YAML does suck for indents, I agree, but so does Python, if you are thinking on those lines, and good code indenting is honestly just good code hygiene if you think about it, why not keep that alive.
I read them on a Braille display a lot, I recognize not all people do, but poorly indented code in Braille VS well-indented is the difference from knowing quickly where functions begin VS trudging code as though it were a thick foggy swamp. And I don't like that feelin'.
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Alex Hall

I don't hate YAML entirely. What bugs me about it are:

* either my IDE defaults to two spaces, or that's the expected indent, because I can't use my normal tabs with it
* I still don't know when to put a hyphen before something
* I can't skip sections by using jump to matching symbol commands
* to me, it feels more fragile and harder to lint

I'm getting used to it, because Gitlab runners, Docker Compose, and other tools demand it. But I still don't really like it. JMO.

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Sina Bahram

IMHO enforced indention is bad. 1st, presentation and content must be decoupled. the web has truly proven the benefits therein. 2nd, this is ableist. Many folks need things to look a certain way for their disability, be it visual, processing, attention, what have you. Enforcing indention is harmful to those folks. 3rd, this removes choice. JSON can be indented, auto or otherwise, but YAML must be, which means no choice. Tech should work for us, not the other way around.
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Tamas G

@sinabahram but I will say: I do see where it could be seen as ablist, in the sense that someone might not have pitch perception, nor Braille, then what? But that's where I think we just need more alternatives for indicating that, haptics, ETC. Would be cool to see an IDE where it did use certain haptic bumps because that I think could even benefit everyone equally for quickly feeling a count of indent levels. I personally see it as a part of semantics, even for machines, because they can parse the number of indents and understand blocks of code better. Without it, chunking would become a lot harder for machines, too. So it benefits both worlds, it's just a matter of equally making it available to everyone.
@Sina Bahram
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Sina Bahram

I feel you're stating indention is needed. I fundamentally disagree. That is simply one way of conveying scope. Another is braces, another is fixed columns from back in the fortran days, and much more. Instead of baking inaccessibility in, let's simply not do that. Also the way it is done is itself inaccessible by enforcing spaces per Python's pep-8 instead of tabs. More importantly, nothing prevents indention being automatically added with all these other options.
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Sina Bahram

also, I don't mean to be all computer sciency, but it is 100% not semantics. It is syntax being conflated with semantics, which is my objection. Syntax should be syntax and semantics should be semantics. It's not about opinions, but rather about data. No peer-reviewed programming language literature to the best of my knowledge supports indention making a statistical difference for programmers. So, in the abscence of evidence, I always choose choice.

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Honestly the easiest first place to test any new language is the SAPI wrapper, you just drop the language-specific YAML in, and boom, you can have that language show up as one of the voices. That's what's nice about it, but anon-well-tuned language (with missing phonemes and such, or a tonal one not configured with tonal settings) would still probably sound like shit. But at least, people can really experiment and try any language just by copying default.yaml and renaming it to the language's YAML name, boom, poof, then adjusting from there.

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#Bitwarden premium users, please be aware that they're doing an 100% price increase for no features of any proper value. I happily paid even 20ā‚¬ a year for 2 vaults, but won't do 40 for features I never use. So thanks for the push to look into selfhosting again.
To clarify, the initial premium price was 10ā‚¬, they're doubling for 20, adding random protection features you don't need if you have a brain.
bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-lā€¦
reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/commentā€¦

Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone | Bitwarden

Bitwarden Premium and Families plans now have new capabilities to account for a modern cyber landscape needing to anticipate threats before they happen and allowing users to proactively safeguard their digital assets.
Bitwarden
#bitwarden
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brainwashed by lentils

Ā»There isn't really another choiceĀ«
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ā€˜There isnā€™t really another choice:ā€™ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

Signal head Meredith Whittaker has responded to concerns about the encrypted messaging appā€™s use of Amazon Web Services, saying ā€œthere isnā€™t really another choice.ā€
Emma Roth (The Verge)

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Wieso wird im Rahmen der #DiDay Bewegung eigentlich stƤndig @signalapp empfohlen? Wo laufen denn die Server von denen? Laut Internet auch in den USA auf Amazon, Google und Coā€¦

Oder habe ich etwas Ć¼bersehen?

UPDATE: Weil mein Post offensichtlich von Fans als Kritik an Signal verstanden wird: meine Frage war, ob ich etwas Ć¼bersehen habe im Sinn von ā€žSignal Server sind nicht nur bei US-Anbietern gehostetā€œ. Ich hƤtte gerne Digitale SouverƤnitƤt mit Signal, nicht einem x-ten anderen System.

Meine Kritik richtet sich an diejenigen, die von digitaler SouverƤnitƤt reden, und dann doch wieder etwas empfehlen, was dem Cloud Act oder der Kontrolle Trumps (Kill Switch) unterliegt.

#data #privacy #digitalesouveranitat #di_day #Diday #messenger #unplugTrump #fcktrump

#privacy #messenger #data #digitalesouveranitat #unplugtrump #diday #di_day #fcktrump @Signal
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RE: mastodon.social/@freedomscientā€¦

This was excellent. Liz and Rachel do a great job.

Freedom Scientific / Vispero

2026-01-20 19:05:03

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Curious about using Googleā€™s NotebookLM with JAWS? This archived webinar shows how to use your own documents to get summaries, outlines, and answers, all in a keyboard-friendly way. Learn how to create a notebook, add sources, ask questions, filter results, and build reports.

Access the archive here: freedomscientific.com/webinarsā€¦

#JAWS #FreedomScientificTraining #AITraining

Opening slide for the Research Reimagined: Mastering Googleā€™s NotebookLM with JAWS webinar. Presented by: Rachel and Elizabeth. Archive Available Now!

Research Reimagined: Mastering Googleā€™s NotebookLM with JAWS ā€“ Freedom Scientific

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