@bebop All of these consider the freedom of the individual to be far more important than any consequences for society in general.
In the case of the FSF / EFF, it's the freedom to run an entirely custom software stack on any device of the user's choosing. This is something relatively few people care about, just as relatively few people care about concealed carry. However, locking devices down is important for scam prevention and to prevent "evil maid" attacks, and most people want that a lot more.
To my neighbours, how can you use 2 drills at the same time for several days over weeks. Get your shit done how many holes do you wanna drill, we can fucking hear it.
Not entirely related thread, but one problem I see after looking at Conversations again recently is that it is difficult to get in contact for new users. There is a QR code scanner button at the top, which is good, but getting your own QR code to show is hidden behind 3-dot-menu -> Manage accounts -> Account details -> Share -> Show QR code.
The other part of onboarding is creating an account, can also be improved but is otherwise ok compared to adding contacts.
The last menu "Invite to server" what exactly should be (I have no spare phone to test)?
Is there something in common with the Great Invitations recently added by @zeank to Ejabberd?
Because the generated xmpp URI by this menu looks similar like if I create invite from the command line.
Also, my IBR are disabled and no one can send great invites except me from the command line. So in my configuration this menu should not work (as I expected)?
Yes, the 'Invite to server' triggers the "Great Invitations" aka Easy Invites. Prosody and Snikket have that and since recently ejabberd as well.
This is exactly for small, family and friends deployments that don’t have open registrations.
I’m not exactly sure how the access control looks like on ejabberd. Maybe only the admin can trigger easy invites. I guess theoretically there are also deployments possible where all users could trigger them.
I need to get a proper YT proxy front-end going (I might install my own Invidious, but we'll see) I am slowly switching EU-based services where possible, but it's not a requirement.
oh my. 5 hours of debugging and updating and trial and error later, and I discover that the version of libvips fwoof.space's server was using was somehow not built with png support among other things. Needless to say, videos and images (both uploading and viewing) now work again, after months. If an image or video doesn't play for you, give it time. I have a task running in the background that's grabbing 93551 remote images/videos and is going to take the next 5 hours, but after that we should be good!
Почему Конституция 1993 года оказалась удобной для построения «вертикали власти» — и была ли траектория к авторитаризму заложена в её тексте? На примерах Ек...
И еще одно интересно. "Традиционные ценности" там хорошо описаны. Это в целом странное явление. В области техники примитивизм очевидно невыгоден, экскаватор лучше лопаты. Примитивизм же в области социальных конструкций люди почему-то ценят и провозглашают, являясь своеобразными социальными луддитами. Хотя провести параллель не сложно.
Да, в смысле примитивизма, именно примитивность анархизма или прочих измов для меня всегда является первым признаком того, что это не лучшее решение сложных социальных проблем. Решение должно быть осмысленно сложным, это один из признаков его зрелости и работоспособности, хоть и туманный.
I want a MAGA hat!!! It's clearly my purpose. Same colors, same presentation. But . . . . . MAKE ACCESSIBILITY GLOBALLY AVAILABLE Or, better, MORE ACCESSIBILITY GLOBALLY AVAILABLE.
@MewProjects FastPlay: Sorry if this is already a thing or there's a good reason why it's not, but any possibility of an option so that, when recording an Internet stream, it can save disk space by recording the raw stream as received rather than the resulting decoded audio?
Aha so it basically does an audio capture of itself? Makes sense. In other words, recording happens at the output stage, when everything's been processed.
small grammar/rewrite wording issue in the PR section: "I believe for PRs we have better much means to sort out the weed with automatic means, since we have tools, tests and scanners to verify such contributions."
Oh, actually related: the IBB HackerOne listing still lists curl, should this be removed from the IBB listings as well? hackerone.com/ibb/policy_scope…
Charging people money in an International context is complicated and a maintenance burden.
I think if it does come to this, you might consider requiring a small donation to a charity? This would dramatically reduce the hassle on all sides, and do something good as a bonus.
of course not, but I guess someone could spin it like "they now have incentive to publish buggy code", right? Anyway, that wasn't the point of the post and I didn't want to insinuate any bad intentions, sorry. I'll remove that part.
I'm on the security report triage team for CPython, pip, urllib3, Requests, and a handful of other open source projects.
I'm also in a trusted position such that I get "tagged in" to other open sou...
Maybe submitting a repot should cost something? The people that are confident about their findings would get the reward that easily pays for that. For the slop that's just too expensive.
Lets talk batteries for a moment. I kinda like that everything got built-in batteries that can be charged via USB (preferably USB-C) nowadays, but then again, batteries die and most of them cannot be replaced easily. I thus do like to have battery-powered devices with rechargeable batteries that can easily be replaced whenever necessary. However, just a few of the battery types do have rechargeable options. 1/X
I currently require the following kinds of batteries in my flat:
AA, AAA, LR44, 4LR44, CR2032, 9V block, CR2025.
Of those, only AA, AAA and the 9V blocks got rechargeable options. I do get that batteries got different sizes and voltages, depending on what is required, but I feel like we could have been able to just decide on fewer battery types and size options. That is all.
Oh and, just give me replaceable and rechargeable batteries in devices, and I won't have to buy batteries anymore. Thx.
So trying Gemini Cli again since it's been a few months. Seems they are leaning into skills and helpers which could be nice to have. I know others already do this as well. Nice to have easy access to common workflows though.
Another execution of an American citizen. A regime that has no strategy but to lash out. The struggle against Trumpist authoritarianism is only going to get bloodier.
My new piece. And for this one, I allowed myself to write angry:
Alex Pretti was a 37-year-old white man. A U.S. citizen. By those metrics, he was part of the demographic that is least vulnerable to the Trumpist assault. But as long as MAGA is in control of the levers of state power, anyone can quickly become a target.
Here is the clearest encapsulation of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is part of the “Volk.” If they decide you are not, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live.
As a default, we should assume the government will keep escalating – not as part of a grand masterplan, but because they have no other strategy and nowhere else to go. MAGA has no coherent idea of how to get from where we are now to consolidated autocracy.
I finally mounted my wireless ZigBee-based IR sender in my livingroom yesterday to send IR commands to TV and soundbar, since my TV is half-smart, as in it can be turned off via ethernet when its on, but it cannot be turned on when its off and needs IR for that (dunno, its weird). Anyway, I was also able to bridge the accessibility gap of the Unfolded Circle Remote 3 with the help of Home Assistant, since the integration can launch every activity on the remote. #smarthome #homeassistant
That gives me a universal remote with activities for everything around the flat, an alexa integration which bridges the touch-screen accessibility gap since I can tell it to turn whichever activity on, physical buttons on the remote mapped to whichever activity is currently running, and some smart automations which e.g. link the on/off state of the soundbar to the state of the TV. Kinda neat. The Remote sometimes seems to lose connection to the WiFi, but an update will hopefully fix that later.
Was kotzen mich meine Berufskollegen regelmäßig an. "Noch nie hat der deutsche Staat so viel #Kindergeld ausgezahlt wie 2025", schreibt Zeit Online über einen Anstieg um 800 Mio. auf 55 Mrd.. Das sind weniger als 1,5% bei einer Inflation von 2,2%, also effektiv ein gesunkener Wert. Einordnung bitte! Als Lautsprecher für interessengeleitete Pressemitteilungen braucht man uns Journalisten wirklich nicht.
@felixule Clippy EM 272 Mics attached to my window, with a cheap 3.5mm cable leading inside to a Raspberry Pi streaming to icecast. I don't have a proper recording setup yet, initially wanted to vibe code something but faced some bugs, so that was just a manual recording.
What a nice condition to start of the week, apparently we have 12cm snow outside, so I'm doing home office, great. I'm serious that's really making stuff more chill.
@Bri Using the newest FastPlay GitHub build, volume changes aren't announced, neither can I switch the sliders with the brackets anymore. Can we also get the abillity to replay a file with space when it has stopped?
Nevím jestli je to psáno "sarkasticky" ... U nás celou noc pršelo a opravdu HODNĚ, nahoře se to tak nějak udrželo, ale dole je v 6h ráno +5°C a zmizelo tak 60% sněhu.
Wellp, I tried to fix "google" "poodle" and "fable" and "able" to sound good, as well as "good" and "book", but probably will need more tuning. Just too tired to tune it, but the rules are there for those who are now wanting to and don't like how they sound. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… I went back all the way to the 2025-v3 add-on to compare it too, and aside from "player" having that "ay" sound now in the newer version, things sound quite identical. Words like same, faded too. None of these will contaminate other languages as phonetic variations are mapped for each language too. I also had people point out how pause mode short and long were not nuanced enough. Well, now they really are, but I made sure to not make "short" very different, it's mostly "long" that's longer now. I'm sure now people will say "short is too long!" but it was melding words together in some languages being that short, so now it's at a reasonable length, "short" is about the pauses that Eloquence has when pauses is set to "shorten all pauses" and "long" is when you have it on "do not shorten." At least, that was more of the approximation used.
Canadians, time to #BoycottPattison. Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real #wealthtax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
Join Liam and Alyssa as they stay out of the cold. Oklahoma City is receiving some crazy bad weather, but they are safe inside. Liam discusses his trip to Seattle, and both Liam and Alyssa then do …
Just so exhausted. Feel like I ran a marathon again. 7 Am work meeting tomorrow. I'll likely work on more Speech Player things, but maybe can't until after work since it's a packed day with meetings until 10 AM and then I'm sure all the Slacks and everything else after. As much as it's easy to make it a full-time project, it wouldn't pay the bills.
High school students using AI to write college application essays that are then graded by AI from admissions departments is a great example of how AI usage devalues systems while people can accurately point to “productivity gains” from using AI.
Sixty-five members of the University of Minnesota Law School have signed an open letter “to address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.” docs.google.com/document/d/1bJ…
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence aga…
Just ran into this on a technical article I was reading. This is what MAGA has done to us: Taken a nation that was doing quite well, and finally trying to grow out of and atone for its wrongs, and turned it into one where our citizens qualify for "relief pricing" because we are under the malignantly cancerous rule of a fascist regime intent on destroying everything of value here.
I really really really really really really hate the JAWS install at this point of time. In other news, we're getting up to 60 CMs of snow... 3 feet, so nothing better to do than to repeatedly install and uninstall JAWS versions.
Asking again if someone happens to have contacts inside Harvard University or Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who feel responsible for open source software licensing. Please get in touch. :)
Note: Please do not copy and paste the contacts for their legal departments, etc. #harvard #ucb #berkeley
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in reply to Beb0p • • •@bebop All of these consider the freedom of the individual to be far more important than any consequences for society in general.
In the case of the FSF / EFF, it's the freedom to run an entirely custom software stack on any device of the user's choosing. This is something relatively few people care about, just as relatively few people care about concealed carry. However, locking devices down is important for scam prevention and to prevent "evil maid" attacks, and most people want that a lot more.