Spent an absolute age pulling network cables through conduit today. Does anyone have any tips for how to make it stress-free? I’m going to try cable lube next time.
A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.
I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.
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#Meta is blocking links to ICE List, a public website that documents ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents using information the agents made public about themselves. Users of #Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are now prevented from sharing the site. link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u00…
Me to Alexa: "What's the score in the Kentucky mens' college basketball game?" Alexa's response: "Kentucky is leading Arkansas 85 to 77 with zero milliseconds remaining in the second half at the end of the second half." Uh, somehow I seriously doubt anyone's gonna get anything done with what, by her definition, must be at most 0.00099999999999999999999999999999… seconds left on the clock.
Not only does the public not support ICE’s current brutal tactics, there is no public support for mass deportation beyond criminal migrants. In this poll, and it is consistent with public opinion going back 20 years, Americans oppose deporting long settled undocumented immigrants by 65%-22% open.substack.com/pub/roberthu…
Okay, here's a silly poll, length one day. If you do not eat either of these for any reason, please don't vote. Also you can boost for reach if you want. Which of the following do you prefer?
oh darn. I can't resist a new release. I just made Spanish sound a hell of a lot better. Gosh darn gosh darn. I fixed sharpnesses in words like "notification" and the "SH" sound now has more lippyness, not just teethy.
Has anyone used a Pebble K380s? Even though logi options is installed function keys do not work for sending things like f4 f3 and others without having to hold down the function key. Is this fixable or am I just totally fucked here?
Some great and weird beers tonight at the GNOME social event. Time for bed, I have a talk about a new Open Source @roost.tools project at 10 AM! Good night, Brussels!#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #GNOME
Oh real quick before sleep: I had a great time at the Christchurch Call Foundation × @roost.tools brunch talking about Open Source and Online Safety with folks from across the ecosystem! Thank you to everyone who joined; you all are doing great work and had great insights. I look forward to continuing the conversation about how to keep platforms and users safe with open source solutions.
Good morning Brussels! I’m on my way to the campus to give a talk about how @roost.tools is bringing open source to trust & safety (and vice versa). We’ll be in AW at 10 AM!
now that we know #JeffreyEpstein was paying m00t to keep #4Chan open and available for pedos like him and that he specifically requested to keep /pol/ going no matter what, let me bring this oldie but goodie:
❝ QAnon was created by Trump’s fascists to take attention away from the Anons working on Opeation Death Eaters and the Jeffrey Epstetn case.
Send a message right now to the Department of Homeland Security’s #Tribal Affairs Director demanding that Tribal citizens #stop being terrorized by #ICE’s #racial profiling and that ICE release any Tribal citizens in ICE detention now. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u…
Minnesota has 11 federally recognized Tribes and due to ICE and CPB’s racial profiling, Tribal citizens are increasingly reporting being stopped, questioned, assaulted, and detained by federal agents.
I did something goofy at work today: we found a tactile drawing set, which includes a tactile protractor with a movable pointer in the middle of it. I was talking and moving the pointer in the middle of the protractor, according to the loudness of my voice, as though it were a VU meter!! People around me must’ve thought I was nuts ha ha ha. #proAudio #homerecording #WomenInSound
Lol this is how you know you're a true audio nerd. I don't think I'd ever come up with an idea like that on my own, but I've done stuff like pretend whatever surface was in front of me is a piano and try playing it. Not entirely sure what the point of doing this was, there was no sound obviously, but I could just hear it in my head so that part didn't bother me. No idea if anyone could see me, but if they could I'm sure they thought I was a little weird
I just fixed up Spanish really well. It can now say the Palatal G sound correctly. It does not say "pay-ro" for pero. It's really nice now. Spanish SpeechPlayer is rockin' it. The palatal G phoneme tuning will help languages like German too in words like Icht.
Lately I've started doing laps around the house for exercise. Tonight I did 5 and a half laps at a speedwalk. Almost 6 when all was said and done. It may sound silly, but wow, that was a workout!
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.
What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
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