My friend took the bed that was in this room today! So now this is the cello room. It is the room where I will be playing cello. I’ve been playing very consistently for two months now so it was time to settle down.
Does anyone know what has APple done with recording videos in the Camera app, particularly with its “spatial recording” feature? When recording videos, it does something weird to the stereo field, sometimes putting things right in the center, at other times switching to some sort of pseudostereo. What am I missing?
Kinda wishing I was in Brussels right now. Of course, if it would be Austin -> NYC with a long layover -> Lisbon -> Brussels, like last time, then it wouldn't exactly be a short flight.
I decided that I was going to take a look at how much I'm spending and where. UFCU (my bank) automatically places my withdrawals into categories that it displays when I look at my recent transactions, but it sometimes gets things wrong (it thinks that Austin Current is travel, for instance, rather than a local news publication.) Regardless, I want my own categories, and I also need to look at Paypal and FNBO (for my credit card), neither of which define the same categories as UFCU, so UFCU's categories are useless to me. So now I have a tab-delimited file listing my expenses for the month, along with their dates and amounts, and I have a script that puts them into the categories that I want and tallies them, optionally for a specific date range, or, optionally, it can tally what I've spent at a specific place, rather than the category that I've placed it into. Most of my transactions are through FNBO, and I can download them to a .csv, and I also have a function that takes the csv and converts it to the format that I want, so now I have a semi-automated process for keeping the file up to date in the future. Anyway, I know that ynab exists for instance, and I have no idea how it compares to what I have, but I like my script.
For users of my Super Mario Maker 2 soundpack for #FastSM, another update has been posted, at the same link as always. This time, I've added the mention earcon, the same used in Tweese Cake, when you scroll over a post that mentions you, as present in the very latest FastSM commits. The pinned post sound has been changed as a result, now using the small, echoing ding that has previously been used as the geo tweet sound. x0box.xyz/uploads/soundpacks/S… @soundpackcentral
Very sleepy. Not sure y'all, might wait on an update for Speech player, kind of cool we're entering February so my "2.0" version can kind of match up now, will take a break from new releases until we've built up some improvements first.
Sean Goedecke wrote a thoughtful analysis of the recent Anthropic paper on AI and coding skill formation that has been going around: seangoedecke.com/how-does-ai-i…
@Bri It's an automagic door system that you swipe in with a fob and it opens. something somewhere is tripping it. I get about a day of normal functionality and then it stops. So now you can just...push the door open with your hand.
@Bri This is the third time it's happened, and each repair has taken about a month to get fixed. Haven't had a properly working door since November now.
5:45 and still nothing. Weather nerds say it could take another hour. This storm is hilarious. The radar looks like an unzipped jacket with the open space being dry.
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so it's hardly a fucking surprise, but having the latest epstein dump confirm that the anti-SJW movement - and the whole anti-trans accusations of 'grooming' children - was orchestrated by and for the benefit of rich pedophile sex traffickers, framing us for their crimes, has me extremely angry.
next time someone brings up that shit I'm going to ask them point-blank how many degrees of separation they are from epstein.
If you're #ActuallyAutistic, you know just how much of a problem these things can be. For me personally, having the information about lighting and how to get service in advance would be a huge help.
Plan your visit at businesses and locations with sensory information and instructions, for and from the autistic community. Noise, lighting, smells, human load, payment methods, toilets and how to get service.
I'm sitting in the rocking chair in my living room. My cat has decided that she needs to lay down on the back of said chair, probably not even two inches from my head. Every 2 seconds she will swing her tail and wack me in the face. Lol
If you see an invitation to participate in a trans or genderqueer study sponsored by Northwestern University, steer clear. It's a rigged, unethical scheme to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
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@reiver@mastodon.social @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe @swf@socialwebfoundation.org @liaizon@wake.st
@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org, who are still in the process of implementing MLS I think (https://arewemlsyet.
fwiw some of us just launched autocrypt2 today, a new transport-independent e2e scheme to do PQC and reliable deletion (forward secrecy), using clock based instead of message based key ratcheting. ietf.org/archive/id/draft-auto…
This document describes the "Autocrypt v2 Certificate",
a standard structure for an OpenPGP certificate for Internet messaging.
It offers defense against store-now-decrypt-later attacks from quantum computers
through post-quantum hybrid cryptography.
also, as much as my soul hurts a bit for all the AI spending this month, this is the exact insight I needed for my main job around AI. Now I know which one to turn to, as on the enterprise-level I've always had access to these models, and know which to use for the right kind of problem solving at work. To me that's huge, even if I'm out a lot more money this month. I don't think a good engineer is quite beholdened to a single AI tool, even if you use one of them at the power (max) level and the other at a much lower "per-usage" way when you need insight one LLM just might lack. But again, the fact that Open-Claude got like 800000 stars in a week is nuts and really shows I'm not the only person thinking this way either.
What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
Not the installation process. Not finding a distro. Not getting programs to work. Not troubleshooting. Not hardware compatibility.
The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this: For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.
They ask a simple question and: People respond "Did you Google it?" People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly". People respond "RTFM" People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.
We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.
Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.
The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.
@jdking92 Got a song request for you. Could you play "So Unfair" by Sophia James? Just discovered on Apple Music yesterday and it's a good one for sure.
Moltbook, created by AI researcher Matt Schlicht, lets autonomous agents powered by models like GPT, Anthropic, and DeepSeek post, comment, and form communities---some discussing encryption fro private bot-to-bot communication.
Yeah as someone who likes playing with LLMs and AI stuff this is insane to me and should have never happened. I had a look on there yesterday, and some of the conversations were downright creepy. The fact that these bots can now take action, not just output text, is probably going to cause a lot of problems relatively soon.
dude when I got streaming actually working properly in FastSM it was like a night and day difference. Mastodon.py's streaming implementation is fucking broken as balls. I had to roll my own.
@Bri Oh this is all by hand. mastodon.rs Size: 30.6 kB, Modified: 1/31/2026 13:20:51 8 of 12. streaming.rs Size: 4.3 kB, Modified: 1/17/2026 18:37:30 10 of 12
@Bri Rust makes absolutely no sense until it suddenly, all at once, does. I figured you'd come around eventually. It's not the language for everyone, I have multiple friends who respect it as a technical product but have no need or want to write in it, and that's fair. But as a technology it is sick.
@Bri That's fair, that's what turned me off of Rust for anything GUI based, hence also why I wrote codestats first instead of paperback in it :D C++ or PureBasic were still my defaults until I found wxDragon.
@Bri @matt I would've written Prism in Rust but a bunch of the code I use is auto-generated and I have no idea how to do similar in Rust. Plus it's all in C++ now so a rewrite would just be unnecessary pain. Not to mention some of the low level COM/RPC stuff I have to do too
@draeand @Bri There's very good support for using, and implementing, COM interfaces that are defined by Windows itself in Rust, via the windows crate. That project also has a code generator that you can apparently use for COM interfaces not defined by the Windows SDK, but I haven't tried that yet.
@matt @Bri I'm not implementing a COM server though, if that's what you mean. They're MSRPC and COM clients. And the MIDL files I do have are... Uh... Unofficial, shall we say?
@matt @Bri The only official clients are the NVDA controller client IDL/ACF files. Stuff for JAWS (FSAPI)/ZT and stuff are either generated by decompiling the TLBS or (in ZT's case) I used the microsoft-specific #import directive to have cl.exe generate the C++ code because midl refused to compile the OLEView-generated IDL (because, apparently, OLEView is a dumb decompiler)
@draeand @Bri For what it's worth, all of the native code in RIM (Remote Incident Manager from Pneuma Solutions), which I wrote, is in Rust, except for one very small C++ module that probably *could* be in Rust too.
@Bri @draeand From Electron? I wish. But really, the main thing keeping us on Electron is that it's the easiest way to have a full WebRTC stack that we can lightly patch as needed.
@Bri Rust compiles to native code like C++, using LLVM with all the optimizations. And Rust is designed to take advantage of all those optimizations. Sometimes the constraints of the Rust ownership and borrowing model mean that safe Rust can't be *quite* as fast as C++. Likewise for bounds checks, which are sometimes necessary in safe code. But those minor speed limitations are IMO totally worth it for safety, and Rust is basically in the same league as C++ in terms of efficiency.
@Bri In Rust, unlike Python, even if the dependency has lots of internal modules, that won't contribute significantly to startup time, because it all gets compiled and optimized into one blob of code that's just part of the executable.
@Bri I mean, at some point, having a huge amount of code isn't free; all that code still has to be read from storage into RAM. But, unlike with Python, the *shape* of the module graph, e.g. having lots of small modules that all have to be imported in sequence, doesn't impact startup time.
@Bri In fact, Rust makes it easier to produce a self-contained executable with all non-OS library dependencies statically linked than most C++ build systems do, so you won't waste startup time loading DLLs.
@matt @Bri And other times, the fact that Rust is so safe makes programmers more confident to introduce concurrency and refactor more, making the program much faster. Not to mention all the optimizations the compiler can do because it doesn't have to worry about aliasing and stuff.
I watched a talk once where somebody rewrote rsync (that was GO and not RUst I believe, but a similar principle still holds), and their version was far faster than the one in C, despite using an older and slower version of the protocol. Not bcause the language itself was faster, but because it encouraged writing better, faster code, given finite programmer time.
I can really see why developers like Claude and that Open-Claude thing has taken off honestly. Compared to GPT's container, Claude can pull down packages, so for phoneme tuning, I can actually get Ukrainian IPA from Espeak inside it and give it guidance on what and how to tune where. Honestly, Claude's Max plan is more of a value worth than GPT's Pro plan is, and it is half the cost, so starting next month I'll save a lot by not paying for that anymore. It was just ouch for a month where I had to try the high-teared plans on each. Gemini still sucks for not letting you download patched files in browser. I don't know why Google's lagging behind on this one, yes, it can modify your code through Gemini CLI but if you drop it a file in-browser it has to rewrite the entire thing from scratch if you ask to insert a function or whatever. Nope. Also with Claude / GPT you can paste in the block you made in your IDE and say, "here's the diff, the new file, this is what we're working on." Open AI, if you re-upload the file with the same filename, it does not override to the newest version, so you end up with something-revised-23.cpp because you have to keep incrementing the version count for each new revision you or it made. Claude can grab the latest copy from /uploads in its container and you then can stay with a clean file, but then might lose revisions that worked earlier, so I guess both can work, but the more and more I use them side by side, Claude does win.
it is. I was trying the API and I blew through $120 in a matter of about 3 days. Youch. That's wen I really considered the Max plan because I realized that the usage cap raises they give you on it meant I wasn't paying per request's tokens but per actual time usage per day/week, looks like how they calculate. So now I haven't hit it once, whether through the $100 plan (web) or through Max web or API. I'm a lot happier with it even at that "5X more usage" one. Haven't thought of "20X" more usage even which is nuts to me.
also, I have never, ever seen Claude think for 58 to 80 minutes. That is just nuts. I do like that GPT thinks through more carefully and methodically (chunk by chunk) on a problem, Claude is a bit like the impulsive kid who can spit out a bunch of code at once, never even check its code thoroughly (sure, it'll check, "Will it compile?" but we engineers know there's more to code than that), and it can easily blow up your file. OpenAI doesn't. So I'm not saying Claude is all shining stars and shimmering butterflies. But here's how I see it. If you're new to coding, don't know a lot of programming fundementals, the more expensive Open AI pro plan pays off. You spend less time debugging because GPT took 65 minutes to think through and carefully reflect on its work, almost like, in deep meditation. But if you're a seasoned programmer who's familiar with concepts, logic, how to write debuggable code that's modular and you know the languages its coding, Claude will absolutely not set you back for costing half the price and being "too nimble." If you know how and what to do, it might actually make you more productive.
I think it depends on how you use the tool. In my experience, Claude compiles, tests and buiqbuilds if you ask it too, but then I am running a CLI version, so it does these things right on my machine. :) Granted I do not use ChatGPT much, so my opinion is only half-valid. :)
@vick21 the web claude can compile too / build! I was surprised when it actually took my repo and ran the full build stage in its container, and spit out for me the build artifacts. Made it easier than spinning up my VM manually to build or a second machine with Linux for that, I was a bit surprised. But yeah, will have to see and test how Claude CLI is, haven't messed with it on the API level beyond some Python / Wrapper CLI tools that let you talk to Claude, but I do wonder if theirs also uses the horrible "nodeJS-packed" rewrites-terminal-every-time method as Open AI does. Hopefully it's more accessible, Gemini CLI still intimidates a me a bit too for the menu driven nature and wrapping, which is why I've stuck a lot to the web side beyond Codex on OpenAI, but then I'm restarting the session every 3-4 messages because too much gets re-written to it. Haha. I do like the idea of the AI using your installed tools since then you're working out of the same workspace, less context switching, so it's for sure the better workflow.
Claude CLI is just as much of a mess as all of these CLIs go. Gemini-cli has a screen reader mode which makes things tiny bit easier. It's the rendering engines that are usually at fault, like Ink, and such. I am using both Claude and gemini-cli via the ACP protocol which spits out pure JSON containing responses. The downside is that you do not get some of the cool things that come with the CLI.
Yep, that checks out. I had Codex build something and within 2 weeks I had more than I could have ever wanted.So it's definitely more hand-holding than Claude.
A random thing I discovered yesterday on my iPhone running iOS 26: when filtering through apps in the Braille Screen Input mode on the home screen, your input is translated into Braille and retranslated into all available languages. As a result, when using the Braille table of one language e.g. Polish, you can use the dot combinations for characters of other languages and matching apps will be found. No more switching to German or Czech just to find an app with some diacritics. #Blind #Accessibility #iOS
I continue to use Downcast for my podcast needs because I feel like it is a good client. A lot of people use overcast though, and I don’t hear Downcast mentioned much anymore. I would be curious as to why people prefer overcast. I realize this is very subjective, but I am OK with that.
Mainly because it just doesn't get updated anymore. I do like the client though, especially on Mac, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to really work there anymore.
The very first beta version of Fedra, the completely native, blazing fast Mastodon client by @Aryan and I is here! It certainly doesn't have all the features of a Mastodon client yet, one big one we're still missing is searching, but it's stable and snappy enough that we can't resist letting people have their hands on it. Do note that because of how early of a beta this is, there is currently no documentation, but most things should be pretty self-Explanatory. Do also note that this beta will stop functioning on March 1st 2026 at Midnight UTC, but we'll likely have another beta or stable release out by then. quinbox.xyz/fedra.exe Enjoy!
@Bri I'm sure soundpacks will be a thing at some point. I'm just gonna wait to see what happens. Got your notifications on tap, thanks Bri for letting me be able to just enable notifications natively.
@KaraLG84 @Bri I don't see why there has to be a battle at all. People will use what they like. No one has to explain anything to anyone. And if anything. It takes some of the pressure off everyone making the clients.
Cool start. I really like the reading order of this, gives me enafore vibes but with more information. Also relative times ftw. Except enafore is really dying these days so this is quickly becoming a favorite on the Windows side. Quick question, am I missing something or is the only way to close a timeline to go through the menu? I think having CTRL+W to do that would be handy for the next version :)
@pitermach You are missing something, but something not obvious at literally all. You can press delete on a timeline from the timelines list to do this, but I agree a more global hotkey would be nice.
@pitermach Suggestion. Separate out the notifications and mentions buffers? Notifications shows things like likes, follows etc, basically everything aside from mentions, and mentions shows, well, mentions? This is the kind of workflow I'm used to and would be great to see.
@Bri @pitermach Oooh yeah, not a bad idea! Also thinking about putting 1-9 to jump to the first 9 timelines in your list, like enafore's numbers but better.
@Bri @pitermach Ya I was wondering about this as well. I really want to have 5 or 6 active accounts going between the 2 services, and still do get some CPU spikes here and there.
@pitermach You inspired me to actually fix my notification template so it actually works and applies. Now users can actually not be annoyed by reading their notifications buffer. Lmao
@draeand I've got a bunch of unsigned executables up there that do random things, like disable your trackpad or let you hide Windos updates. Probably looks suspect to a dumb AI.
@draeand Fastplay used it initially, but I had to ditch it because it just simply wasn't working on some users' machines. This was with like 0.5.0 though.
@Bri Give it a go now, I fixed the SAPI thing. If it still doesn't work, can you get me some kind of MRE or something so I can make it a regression test and figure out why it breaks?
@Bri Was the code that was broken in Python? If so, I fixed a pretty bad bug in older Python versions where type hints were being eagerly evaluated but the typs didn't exist, so Python was getting all angry about it
@Bri Yeah Python 3.11 and stuff eagerly evaluated type hints, and then python 3.12/13/14 changed it to lazily do it, and so since I'm on 3.14 I of course didn't even realize it was fucked
@draeand @Bri 3.11 still does it if you `from __future__ import annotations`. This is what we do in many places in Python code, as that makes it easier to reference class Bar in class Foo if Bar is defined below Foo in the file.
As folders and messages managing via screen reader and keyboard, MailBoxOrg, a service from Berlin, seems to be the best. It's paid only.
Proton is in the middle, while infomaniak is interesting for the amount of services it provides in basic plan and as it's affordable in price, unfortunately Tuta, which I'd have promoted as the best for first period of 2025, since summer it has became almost impossible to use through web. And phone, as it's not native, it's quite difficult to use as a blind person.
I wonder if there are even other secure, privacy-oriented, Europe-based and open source, accessibility-friendly even more of those characteristics together, for me to try.
I want GMail to stay just here for newsletters and stupid ads, but I need a very reliable service for personal e-mail messages. Yes, I even considered self-hosting my e-mail into my web site's provider. But give to doctors, shops, tech assistance and so on, a complicated address such as something at plusbrothers dot net! Especially if they speak no english!
For that purpose now I have nickname at pm dot me, with proton, that seems the best option. But a little Trump Oriented, I fear.
Don't know about you, but for me lack of Imap/SMTP support is a show-stopper. No, I won't use your web interface, I almost never use web interface for email because it makes email a thousand times harder to use as a means of communication. Hence, although I have proton login somewhere, it'll never be even remotely one of my main boxes because no IMAP/SMTP. I need my desktop mail clients. #Accessibility
@menelion I'm almost the opposite. Oh, well, depends. At work I can't use something different from their Microsoft Exchange account. Well, I'm in the office! And from my point of view, asking to configure a personal account on the office's machine through imap, it would sound like "please, I have a massaging chair. Can I replace the one you gave me?" So I have got mostly used to web mail interfaces. Tuta itself has a desktop client, but without web mail I can't properly use it, due to the fact I do not have always the same machine and configuration, while every workstation has a browser. Nothing prevents me from using different e-mail providers depending on my specific needs. But when they start to cost much money, then everything becomes unaffordable.
To me email is a way of quick (or at least quickish and convenient) communication. And I have lots of email accounts, so I'd like to skim through all of my inboxes in a convenient interface. I use OUtlook Classic, but Thunderbird is also quite accessible.
@GrapheneOS Please become more active on Lemmy using your Mastodon account (All Lemmy instances provide unauthenticated full-text search, unlike Mastodon. It only lacks fuzzy finding), or set up your own Lemmy instance and account, to more effectively address mentions and false claims about GrapheneOS. You're doing a great job interacting with the community here on Mastodon!
Our community needs to be far more active engaging with people about GrapheneOS across platforms. Provide factual information and counter inaccurate attacks on the project and team while remaining calm and polite even in the fact of people engaging in personal insults and linking harassment content. We have a lot of users and a large community but aren't receiving enough help from them with this. We cannot be everywhere and cannot spend more time countering misinformation.
yesterday I wandered aimlessly around the cafeteria looking for you 🥲 I hope I’ll get a chance to say a quick hi, thank you for your work and grab one of your stickers (actually I need 2-3 because my child steals all my stickers)
Yeah, but did you know you can do that through Homebrew if you're on Mac? Then just have a thing that upgrades all packages, or that one specifically every now and then.
Accessibility fedi, may I nerd snipe you a little. At the makerspace we have 9 doors. I'd like to repaint each door a unique colour, so we can have simple stuff like "lock on blue door broken" and remove ambiguity. Except, as xkcd has proven, colours are hard.
Is there a set of 9 (maybe 10 to allow for future expansion) unique colours that work with all colour blindnesses, and related visual accessibility needs?
Sorry, I don't know what you are up to, but think about blind people, or, if it's not pertinent, about color-blind people. I'd suggest to proceed with painting but have other reference, like "third door" or "wooden door" or "door with a flower on it", I'm making stuff up now but color alone is a no-no per any accessibility standard. #Accessibility
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025.
My rabbit hole for today is a Youtube channel of someone who took their sweet time and not only recorded different phone announcements across the world but also went through the ITU and ETSI recommendations and actually recreated different telephony signaling sequences from different parts of the world at different times going back to 1955, then did some more tinkering and did the same with some cordless phone ringtones. Just to get a break, they simulated a couple of international calls, putting the right signals and probably TTS-created voicemail greetings at the right places. Enjoy! youtube.com/@tonsoftonz?si=yN3… #Telephony
@Tissman I hope these are at least somewhat faithful reconstructions. There are no sounds from Poland so I can't tell based on what I can remember from my childhood. There's also no way I know of reaching the person behind the channel so we can't chat about these materials.
Has anyone here listened to the Harry Potter full cast audio books? Why, for God's sake, does Madam Pomfrey have a male voice? I swear it's a woman! WTF.
What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?
Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK
After a very long time I've returned to Mastodon. If anyone remembers me, that is. I've recently got a lot of spam followers for some reason, so I thought why not to log in actually and see what's happening.
Gibt es eine ernstzunehmende Alternative zu »Vimeo«?
Ich bin derzeit bestrebt, mich von einigen Firmen und derer Apps etwas freizumachen, respektive möchte ich gerne meine Daten immer mehr auf europäische, bestenfalls deutsche und schweizer Server legen.
Nun möchte ich gerne Videos meiner Bands »Bellybutton & The Knockwells" und »DramaGold« (ca. 20 GB), die bislang bei Vimeo liegen, eben von Vimeo wegziehen lassen.
What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
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