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Starting my day by consoling my naturalized citizen family member while they sob in fear of ICE.

I don't even know what to say to them anymore. Last year it was, "I know. It will be ok. You are a fucking citizen and nothing will happen." and now it's, "I love you. I will do everything to protect you. I'm scared too."

Fuck ICE. FUCK you if you support them. Rot in hell you bastards.

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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.

Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.

#Scotland #UK #Sustainability #Nature #Art

Close-up of a drystone bench built into a low stone wall. The stones are layered in horizontal courses with upright coping stones on top. A thick wooden slab forms the seat, supported by projecting stones beneath. Grass and moss surround the base.
Wide view of a drystone bench set into a curved stone wall on a grassy bank beside Loch Voil. The wall is built from mixed local stone with upright coping stones along the top. Leafless trees and a sloping hillside rise behind the bench.
#sustainability #art #uk #scotland #nature
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ICE continues to dehumanize the same immigrants Woody Guthrie defended
theintercept.com/2026/01/28/wo…

Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again.

Woody Guthrie wrote the tune “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” about the same 1948 plane crash ICE is memorializing today.
Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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Herefordrob

Deportee
by Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffma

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane
All they will call you will be Deportee

Now my father's own father, he waded that river they took all the money her made in his life six hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria you won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane
No, all they will call you will be Deportee

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee

But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river we died just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee
© 1948

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Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released:

github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31313…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser


Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#privacy #browser #security #grapheneos

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As of around 11:21 AM Central time, we have power! I repeat, we! Have! Power! This was an approximately 124-hour power outage, which makes it the second longest I've lived through. And our whole house generator did a wonderful job of keeping everything going. Clarification: How do I know we got utility power back? Good question! We have an automatic transfer switch installed. Thirty seconds after power originally failed, it commanded our generator to start, waited until it was producing stable power, then switched our house to it. Then this morning, it saw that utility power had returned, probably waited a bit to make sure it was stable, switched our house back to it, let the generator run for a while with no load, then commanded it to shut down. Had I been fully awake I *might* have suspected utility power was back when we were switched to it, but the real giveaway was when the generator suddenly shut down but power didn't. Whew! It's over!
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I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.

I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.

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Wastewater concentrations are very high for COVID-19 in Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota; for influenza A in South Dakota and Vermont; and for RSV in Maryland, Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Virginia.
#COVID #Influenza
cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gener…

After 3-week decline, flu cases rise across the US; RSV, COVID activity high in certain states

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
#covid #influenza

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#PSA: If you are documenting the #ICE operations in the #USA with #video, I am BEGGING you to NOT trust ANY US-based #SocialMedia like #YouTube. There is currently a high risk your uploads will be nuked, shadowbanned or otherwise suppressed, given the recent FISHY #TikTok aquisition.

Backup everything on international servers. Or better: Move ur stuff altogether. Use decentralized tech like #PeerTube. Do it BEFORE the banhammer strikes.

#decentralization #backup #media #journalism #Internet

#peertube #youtube #socialmedia #USA #video #decentralization #journalism #media #tiktok #psa #Internet #backup #ice

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RE: syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11598405…

If you're a wayward half-baked Norwegian looking for a place to crash till you can jump the pond, #minnesota is the place. #Trump says nobody wants to live there, but, seeing all this...passion...I'm sold. All this is like a fucking #liberal "come live here" infomercial. I love it.


MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🏴 (@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)

Attached: 1 image Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers. 3 #USPolitics #FuckICE #Minnesota
Syzito.xyz
#Trump #liberal #minnesota
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Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.

Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.

ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/b…

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #jimpattison


Company owned by B.C. billionaire says ICE warehouse sale ‘will not be proceeding’

A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Todd Coyne (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #jimpattison

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44100 still sounds a bit shit, but it's also like, 44100 HZ. No Klatt engine does 44100 well, or at all. I'm not going to blame myself for that one. We made 22050 and 16000 sound more refined, fuller, richer, and those are sample rates more are likely to use than 44100. I shouldn't be mad at myself. But I really wanna pour icecubes all over my body because of it. torture myself somehow as punishment for making it shit at 44100.

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Melania comes out today.

So does my latest song.

Some say my song will get more streams than Melania sells tickets.

I think they might be:

Making It Up
~ #Dgar

ffm.to/dgarmakingitup

Thank you for your support!! Boosts welcome!

#DgarMusic #IndieMusic #Indie #Music #SingerSongwriter #NewSong #Bandcamp #Soundcloud


Dgar - Making It Up

Choose your preferred music service
ffm.to
#music #indie #bandcamp #dgar #dgarmusic #indiemusic #singersongwriter #soundcloud #newsong

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Although pager networks fell out of general use a quarter century ago, they still are in use today by a select few groups of users. I just heard an insane amount of spuriousness while scanning this afternoon. And that brings me to my question. One would think, that the radios in use on these pager networks would be well-certified, well-tested, quality-controled, commercial-grade radios. Right? I mean, at least that's my theory, anyhow. So why in the hell are they so damn spurious, noisy, and just cause really really super wide splatteryness? I guess, is it just because of the modulation? Its loud and noisy, and cuts threw? I dunno. My actual radio knowledge is more like a person who drives a car, rather than a mechanic who fixes cars every single day. But we both qualify for a license, we just have differing knowledge strengths. So I put it to my true radio mechanics, any thoughts on this?

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But I think I will ship it ultimately. It doesn't make the voice more clicky than it was already. It adds new sliders if people hate the new pitch deltas and glottal shaping modulation they want to mess with. So like, hmm. It's not a bad change. It is not one that creates regressions at all. I've been reading long passages with it to discover added clickyness but not hearing none.

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There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at:

➡️ joinloops.org

You can follow its official account at:

➡️ @loops

There's an iPhone app just released at:

➡️ apps.apple.com/app/loops-by-pi…

Loops now federates with the Fediverse, there are several Loops servers and Loops accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc (e.g. @dansup).

#FediTips #Tiktok #TiktokUS


Loops by Pixelfed App - App Store

Download Loops by Pixelfed by Daniel Supernault on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Loops by Pixelfed.
App Store
#FediTips #tiktok #tiktokus @loops @dansup
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Hello, Tyler Zahnke here! I have officially launched BatchPedia, and I recommend that every Microsoft Windows user at least check it out. As it has just
been launched, there are only fifteen or so articles so far, and this website is an open wiki, so people are free to contribute.
BatchPedia aims to be the encyclopedia of all things Windows Command Prompt and Batch files, including Batch culture! You heard that right, this isn't
just a Windows/MS-DOS command reference; the Internet is already full of those. Though BatchPedia does have a category for information about commands for
the sake of completeness, it also has articles about forums, subreddits and Discord servers where Command Prompt and Batch files are discussed, as well
as articles about software and projects found on these sites. The Software category is full of tools and even games (especially text adventures) that were
built entirely with Batch and can be played in Command Prompt. The Books category has links to textbooks about working with Command Prompt and programming
your own Batch files.
Why did I create BatchPedia?
BatchPedia was created as a central resource for the Batch community. Some Batch games have been mentioned on the R/Batch subreddit but not on the DosTips
forum, or vice-versa, while proposals like the language model DOSLM were mentioned on the DosTips forum but have never been mentioned on the subreddit
or either of the Discord servers (Batch Town and Server.bat). The Batch community is already small, so divisions within the community make it hard for
some information to be noticed by the community. BatchPedia is all about collecting information from all these resources and compiling it into a handy
encyclopedia.
As a blind Windows user, Batch-based software has fascinated me since childhood. Though most members of the Batch community are not blind, it is easy to
see the potential appeal that Batch has to blind users. Batch is known for having very little in the graphics department, therefore most Batch-based games
are almost entirely text-based. If a Batch program is inaccessible for some reason, it tends to use ASCII art (pictures made of letters, numbers and symbols),
and these are relatively rare due to the complexity of creating ASCII art, especially when stretched between lines of code. Though a Batch Graphics library
has been created to make simple graphics slightly easier, most Batch programmers prefer an out-of-the-box setup, therefore most Batch programmers create
a very text-heavy, therefore usually accessible if somewhat retro and MS-DOS-like user interface. Though BatchPedia currently has no information about
blindness and accessibility, we are definitely planning on this, and a big reason I created this site is because most Batch-based software is text-based
and therefore accessible. As a fan of retro video games and retro game YouTube content, I also acknowledge the retro, MS-DOS-like vibe of Batch files (this
fact is so well-known that some people still call Batch files DOS programs, and they call Command Prompt a DOS window). So both my retro PC software side
and my accessibility side are fascinated by the Command Prompt and the programs that can run within it. Despite the name, general Windows Command Prompt
information is also welcome, not just for the sake of building a program. There is a shocking amount of Batch file-related material online, from text-based
games to instructions on programming an efficient file backup automation tool, even a mini-program for managing your to-do lists! Though Batch files may
not be a powerhouse of the computer programming world, it is a light and very accessible way to make small programs with completely keyboard-based interaction;
for those of you who remember the classic retro computer phrase "Press any key to continue", Batch files are the easiest place to find this phrase in a
modern setting (spoiler alert, this message is displayed when a pause command is entered). Due to Batch files being an only slightly modified version of
the MS-DOS command interface, pretty much nothing is mouse-based, giving almost every Batch file that nice, clean, accessible, 100% keyboard-based and
text-based experience! This website will tell you things about Windows that you never knew, but I must repeat this disclaimer again; this is a brand new
website, so it is currently lacking lots of information, though anyone is willing to send me information by email or even directly in the wiki.
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Welcome to BatchPedia, the encyclopedia of all things Windows and MS-DOS Batch! There are currently 6 articles in this encyclopedia. Learn about Batch tools and...
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Vcera jsem tu narazil na video simulace kapusticek, kapustickozroutu a zroutu kapustickozroutu v nekonecnem cyklu. Hned jsem si s tim chtel hrat a odpovedet si na spoustu otazek ze sveta lovcu, lovenych a kapusticek.

Akce to byla uspesna. Osahal jsem si @bevy + #burn.

Natrenoval nejake modely. Vysledek tu:

evolution-ochre.vercel.app

Pokud budete mit pocit, ze kapustickozrouti obcas honi zrouty kapustickozroutu, tak to neni jenom pocit. Jsou to supi.

#rust #bevy #burn

Evolution

evolution-ochre.vercel.app
#rust #Bevy #burn @Bevy
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I wish Apple's operating systems had a better setting for whether VoiceOver should speak hints. Right now, it's either all hints, or none. What I want is the option to only speak a hint when that hint is not the default one. Double tap to activate? Yep, I've heard that for 17 years. Swipe up or down with one finger to select a value? Yeah, I know--don't say that one. But if an app adds custom hints, I very much want to hear those.

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If you rely on assistive technologies (TTS, Braille display, enlarged fonts), what would be your preferred terminal output from a compiler or other CLI tool telling you where an error occurred?
If you'd prefer a different option, please elaborate.
#Accessibility #Programming #A11y #Rust #RustLang

  • at path/to/file.rs, line 10, column 29 (56%, 14 votes)
  • at path/to/file.rs:10:29 (40%, 10 votes)
  • -> path/to/file.rs:10:29 (16%, 4 votes)
  • path/to/file.rs:10:29 (32%, 8 votes)
25 voters. Poll end: in 3 hours

#a11y #Accessibility #programming #rust #RustLang
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In the Telegram group of a podcast I really love a listener brought this: github.com/github/spec-kit. And it seems, it's a thing I've been searching for since I started using #AI assistants in my development. Even before AI I always wrote a spec first, even if it was quite rough on edges, — I've always thought in lists and headings (yeah, screen reader user habits!). It's even more trustworthy because comes from #GitHub itself. Although it's still in version zero, I'm trying it now and it seems a very interesting concept.#SpecKit #SDD #SpecificationDrivenDevelopment

GitHub - github/spec-kit: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development - github/spec-kit
GitHub
#github #AI #speckit #sdd #specificationdrivendevelopment
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For 11025 Hz, we kept the original symmetric cosine glottal waveform because the new LF-inspired one sounded "constrained" / "like a small cell phone speaker" at low sample rates.
At higher sample rates (16000+), use asymmetric LF-inspired glottal waveform
with sharp closure (sharpness=3.0) for richer harmonics and "grainier" Eloquence-like
character.
This is based on the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal model from 1985 - the same research that informed Klatt88 and likely Eloquence's DSP!
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