America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.
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Just days after the death of Alex Pretti, Bruce Springsteen wrote the protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis,' which denounces ICE and Donald Trump.Conor Lochrie (Rolling Stone Australia)
I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.
It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it
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somebody finally did it. open source native video compression on Android which uses the hardware and isn't just another ffmpeg wrapper. MIT licensed.
github.com/JoshAtticus/Compres…
"Compressor." now available on @IzzyOnDroid
dude needs beta testers to get it on Google Play ... see the latest release notes on Github if you want to help.
#Android #VideoCompression #FLOSS #MITlicense #IzzyOnDroid
Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android - JoshAtticus/CompressorGitHub
RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…
It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.
The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.
OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project. https://www.heise.heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)
HEADLINE: "Tim Cook Says He Is ‘Heartbroken by the Events in Minnesota,’ Calls for De-Escalation"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cook, who donated $1 million to Trump, claims to be "heartbroken" by what was obviously going to happen if people like him didn't oppose Trump"
Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte.
Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus bemerkenswert.
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...YouTube
"come to our centralized platform, we are good guys and we will stay good forever, we absolutely will not prioritize monetization over your privacy at any point in the future even after several changes of ownership"
#decentralization #enshittification
Reaper Made Easy - First stream of the year happens on Saturday, January31st, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK.
Here we go again,; another year; more questions, more answers.
I'm perplexed, what's next?
Join Scott and Jenny K for a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com.
That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.
If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining
See ya there,
Jen
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Breaking: Bruce Stringsteen has just released what may become an historic protest ballad.
Streets Of Minneapolis is a beautiful brave soulful anthem destined to take a place among the great songs of the struggles for freedom.
🔥New Music: Bruce Stringsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)🔥 And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this…Mastodon Migration (Mastodon)
News: Daily Beast | Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE
Bruce Springsteen just put out a new song called “Streets of Minneapolis” that both memorializes the protesters killed by ICE in that city and lambastes the Trump administration’s “lies.”
He also calls out “King Trump” in the brutal lyrics, slamming his “private army from the DHS”
“A city aflame fought fire and ice / ‘Neath an occupier’s boots.”
thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bru…
The lyrics specifically call out “Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”Eboni Boykin-Patterson (The Daily Beast)
News: Hollywood Reporter | Bruce Springsteen Releases ICE Protest Song About “State Terror” in Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen released a protest song Wednesday about what he called the “state terror” ICE committed in Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen said Wednesday.
hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…
Springsteen said "Streets of Minneapolis" is "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good."Ethan Millman (The Hollywood Reporter)
Mourning Didier Spaier
lwn.net/Articles/1056384/ #LWN
We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-ba [...]LWN.net
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For anyone using Termux, here's a script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud up and going. Hopefully.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn0bwdfegnj…
#Termux #linux #foss #emacs #emacspeak #accessibility #blind
as someone who is a bona fide expert in the underlying technology of LLMs, the amount these genai CEOs executives managers and boosters simply fail is mindblowing. I cannot explain the details but these fucks have only have one idea: prompting chatbot. If they have a second idea it's prompting chatbot more.
these fucks are intellectually vacant. they have all the innovation of a 3 day constipated turd. but you can't really expect more from the type of guy who allegedly raped his own kid sister
the fundamental ideas behind LLMs can in fact do things, but you have to dig below all the layers of coprolite fossilized anti wisdom like "buy more nVidia processors" (which btw has been the received wisdom ever since nVidia gave out a bunch of free GPUs 15 years ago)
I have to reiterate that my dog has more interesting and novel ideas than sam, dario, or whoever is at Google.
these Thought Leaders have only one thought. its "more chatbots more prompts"
so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒
also yes all the people building the infrastructure are just cryptocurrency grifters trying for a better grift. including Musk and Altman. watch @davidgerard episode on gas town
"so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒 "
You could make a T-shirt with this sentence.
Ukázka jak jsem přidal filtr na desku Heltec V3.1Díky tomu, že je jen pro příjmovou cestu, tak se nijak nekrátí výstupní výkon. Filtr má šířku pásma asi 4MHz...YouTube
Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.
I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.
Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.
Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.
If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.
@libreoffice Thanks. I'll try to find the discussions.
I can't find some of them (and don't have time right now; the whole issue is that I am extremely busy trying to get things done and don't have a lot of time to search forums when I run into problems, right now). Here's one.
ask.libreoffice.org/t/update-s…
I'm aware that the volunteers answering questions can't implement changes. My frustration is with those who keep telling users some verison of "you are wrong to want that."
I wrote my book in LibreOffice Writer for a few reasons. I really really don’t want to move to Word. But in this final editing phase where I’m trying to format over 400 pages using styles, it’s frustrating when I update a style and yet it doesn’t con…Ask LibreOffice
Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees to prioritize AI, which will bring innovative changes such as:
-Automatically purchase item if user looks at screen for more than 5 seconds.
-Make device loudly screech if user closes the app.
-Delivery drones will stalk user if they cancel Prime membership.
The senate votes on #DHS funding tomorrow and way too many of these fucks want to help fund #ICE in return for some magic beans of promises that the Gestapo will start following laws. Please call your senators and yell at them.
Sick of being told to call your senators? Get plastered drunk and swear at them. It's more fun, and they deserve it.
# error getting refs for yosida95/uritemplate: apis.get api.github.com/repos/yosida95/…: 429, body: {
"documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#abuse-rate-limits",
"message": "You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again."
all I was trying to do was fetch the distfiles to package this Go program for FreeBSD...
So I left for the weekend to visit family, came back -- avoided contact with sick people the whole time -- only to find my wife was sick with a cold and she didn't tell me and now I have it
Just pisses me off because I've been able to go a couple years without getting anything and now this. It always ruins my week. I can't get shit done because it's a constant nuisance disrupting my concentration
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
openculture.com/2026/01/rip-gl…
Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Habe beim "Entrümpeln" noch einige DVD´s und Blu-ray´s gefunden, die ich gegen Übernahme der Portokosten abgeben möchte. Wer mag darf gerne eine kleine Spende dazulegen, aber das bleibt euch überlassen.
Die DVD´s und Blu-ray´s werden als ein Paket abgegeben. Der Aufwand ist mir zu hoch sie pro Stück zu versenden.
Ein Boost wäre nett, Danke !
#verschenken #dvd #bluray #boost
I've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way.Thomas Günther (medienbaecker.com)
On my Samsung phone, that never happens. Besides more general issues discussed elsewhere on this site, TalkBack's hardware Braille display support works fine.Devin Prater (Accessible Android)
So what is development like for the BTSpeak?
Are you limited to making apps that only work with desktop mode, or can you do things that also integrate with the non-desktop experience? (Not up on my BTSpeak terminology so maybe there's a better description for "non-desktop-mode experience" but hopefully what I mean is clear)
What is development like? I know there are Python tutorials but is it limited to Python? Or can you build a TUI-style app and adapt it to work with specific keycodes/conventions?
Are there any developer docs?
I've had an idea for something that would likely be great for the BTSpeak and other notetakers for a while now, and my assumption is that the BTSpeak is probably the most open/easy to develop for. If that's correct, I'm curious what that process looks like.
You can get to a shell in traditional mode, through the system administration menu or something like that.
The traditional mode is literally the Linux text console with BRLTTY configured for speech output and Braille keyboard input. The desktop mode is MATE with Orca, again using BRLTTY for keyboard input.
On this day, forty years ago: 28 January 1986.
I was working on my astronomy PhD in the terminal room at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
Someone came in & told us the awful news. After so many launches & astronauts, we’d grown blasé & didn’t pay much attention anymore.
That changed in 73 seconds on that cold day & we learned again that space is hard.
I still remember their names:
Onizuka, Smith, McAuliffe, Scobee, Jarvis, Resnick, & McNair.
Ad astra, STS-51L Challenger crew ✨
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