What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
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In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.

Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch to fix a problem that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.

fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/…

edit: forgot some important words.

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The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.

We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.

Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…

Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.

We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!

- cartography design
- open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus
- field research ops planning and support
- drone mapping / photography

...and more...

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in reply to Dr. Adam Steer

...with a little nudge from and in collaboration with @rowlandm I'd like to add:

- outdoor coaching and mentoring (not guiding, a different kind of support. Ask me)

...and with growing experience at the sharp end of aviation operations, working in small collaborative teams with pilots:

- help with operational forecasting; working with pilots and ATC

Websites in my bio show a good range of capabilities ;)

#fedihireme #openforConsulting

in reply to Dr. Adam Steer

Very important PS:

If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how...

Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.

I'm focused on Australia/ Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / east Asia / Americas

...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D

#openGeospatialConsulting #GISchat

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> More than 200 years ago, bison roamed freely across Illinois, but as the industrial revolution reshaped the landscape, the bison disappeared.

yeah they just decided to "leave" lol why can't they just admit we literally killed them all
RT: glammr.us/users/danielleganza/…

Langer Post, #Sharkey -Erfahrungen eines Mastodonten

Sensitive content

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️

Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.

So yeah, USB ports in Windows have a memory of what you jammed in them and the list can become extensive. I just ran this nifty little utility called Device Cleaner and it found 166 non-present USB devices. I deleted them all with this utility and now my computer seems happier. It's sort of like cutting your hair I guess. You can download this from Major Geeks right here: majorgeeks.com/files/details/d…

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#XSF Announcement

Tomorrow the 28th #XMPP #Summit is taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium.
Start at 09:00 am (UTC+1).

If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation

Apparently in Italian there is a word for:

"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell

Elektroautos gelten als sauberste Alternative zum Verbrenner. Dabei wird ein noch klimafreundlicheres Fahrzeug oft vergessen: das E-Bike. Studien zeigen: E-Bikes sparen mehr Ressourcen, verursachen deutlich geringere CO2-Emissionen und beschleunigen die Verkehrswende stärker als die Elektrifizierung des Autoverkehrs.

E-Bikes ersetzen fast jede zweite Autofahrt.

squirrel-news.net/de/news/waru…

#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...

Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)

#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.

#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš

1:08:15 oh. If commenting on other people's habits is odd, then dude's just explained part of why people have reacted so weirdly to me over the years.

youtube.com/watch?v=rO9FL86_vT…

in reply to Mx Verda

I'm grateful for this experience showing me I trust my actions, and I behave with integrity however I can.
I'm grateful for this experience giving me insight into how I can affect others and how I did affect other people when I acted like that.
I'm grateful I can avoid acting like that now.
I'm grateful I wrote down exactly what happened as it happened in the Cat in a Flat booking chat.
I'm grateful I didn't compromise my needs more than I felt was fair.
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When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them.
If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages.
You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.

You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.

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With voice profiles you can change the character of the voice in two strong ways:
1.
Global / class-based shaping
• Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch)
• Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled"
• Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes
• Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults)
2. Small targeted overrides
When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack.
That combination is exactly how you get:
• female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives
• child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy
• deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate)
And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.

Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.

I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.

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in reply to Devin Prater :blind:

Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.

At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.

At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.

I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.

Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.

#accessibility #FreeBSD #UNIX #openSource

America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.

au.rollingstone.com/music/musi…

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

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

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.

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.

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

Lunch time! You know what I'm gonna do during lunch? Implement a new "voice profiles" parsable YAML section that transforms phonemes into different voice profiles. Yes yes, this needs to be one phoneme table, not multiple, and it needs to not break existing packs. Let's get coding. This is how the pro engines did it.
We don't need to load another phoneme table entirely, just shift core phonemes to desired voices.
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The nice young man witnessing to me about the light of Jesus while I was trying to get some work done at the library (the library!) was not at all ready for my light of Jewish Anarchism + Buddhism tossed right back at him. We had a very nice chat (truly), but I ceded no ground and while I may pick up the Book of Mark (his suggestion) he will probably read about Emma Goldman and Howard Zinn.

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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in reply to Florian

@zersiax A recording of each Q&A session stays up for a week so people can catch it in any time zone. We don't keep them up forever because it's good for people to be able to take their first steps, talk through any initial awkward misunderstandings and share their first projects without that being preserved forever. Leads to a little more repetition, but given how difficult archives in this format would be to search anyway, I'm pretty sure it helps newbies more than it hinders anyone else. @ZBennoui @technowitch

RE: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…

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.

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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…

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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…