I'm mad the Bitcoin price is going back up because the bank has been making it hell for me to buy lots of Bitcoin this last week.
They cancelled a wire transfer I scheduled because I didn't answer their phone calls. Said it was the first time I've done a wire transfer and needed to speak to me first.
But that's not true. I did a huge wire transfer in 2021. They should know this.
And then they're throttling my ACH transfers, even to another bank where they verified I own that account.
I hate banks. They are not your friend. They never will be. Long live crypto.
Million dollar idea: a new telephone signaling protocol so that when I'm put on hold, it signals the music app on my local phone to play my tunes rather than whatever random junk has been badly recorded into their PBX.
If you're reasonably wealthy or poor enough, healthcare costs are not a concern. Be poor. Have a baby. Never see a bill. Thanks Medicaid!
Be middle class. Have a baby. Your finances are now fucked hard.
This guy is right that they're taxing it out of existence... FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS.
Poor people will still have babies and not think twice about it. The hospital is not going to turn away a mother, deny her prenatal care, make her have her baby in the streets -- yet. Once that starts happening people will really start caring I think. But for now, poor people often get some of the best healthcare in the country. But only if they're a specific kind of poor and in rather narrow circumstances.
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
> As a result, Claude will ignore the contents of your CLAUDE.md if it decides that it is not relevant to its current task. The more information you have in the file that's not universally applicable to the tasks you have it working on, the more likely it is that Claude will ignore your instructions in the file.
O pessoal que anda a justificar o assassinato de pescadores Venezuelanos do Trump por suposto tráfico de droga para os EUA (zero provas) tem alguma coisa a dizer sobre o Perdão Presidencial concedido pelo Trump ao Juan Orlando Hernández, ex-Presidente das Honduras, preso por tráfico de droga?
I have no problem with it. if it means I will receive regular updates to the software, subscription away. This community is very small. Once you hit the saturation point, you stop making sales, which means you stop making money, which means you stop being able to justify continuing to update a product.
I don't think I've yet expressed enough yet how great the out of box experience of #Fedora #Linux on a new #Lenovo #ThinkPad has been. Don't get me wrong, Fedora runs great on my other hardware, too, but this pairing feels much more intentionally supported and it really shows in the experience.
ThinkPads have always been well supported. In the past it was mainly due to the community, but in the recent years the Linux engineering team in Lenovo has really stepped up its game. Too bad Dell is going the opposite direction. Introducing more and more hardware components that rely on out-of-tree kernel drivers. My last three work laptops have been been XPS 13, but my next one will most likely be a ThinkPad again.
@sesivany I've always only bought Lenovo precisely because of this. Although new technology takes awhile to get supported. My lunarlake laptop is still kinda sucks because I got a regression.
@dawn oh thanks for sharing. This is the first time I've run KDE in over 10 years so that's why I haven't seen it before. I was a daily MacOS user for a long time.
Přechod mezi telefony je na Androidu pořád hodně práce
Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je to pořád z nemalé části manuální proces.
Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je t…
Heads up to our friends in the #UK - we're performing maintenance at the LHR site which should be completed in ~ another 4 hours. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
A PSA. An RTO (Return to the Office) policy isn't about collaboration nor productivity. It's about exerting control, and a mean to shed (the best) people from your workforce without having to pay severance....
Every year I think Apple can’t best their previous campaign for accessibility, and yet here we are. (An audio description is available from the video settings.)
Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...
Okay. So I can't decide for my portable lap 61 key keyboard if I should get a straight Midi controller or if I should get something with at least some onboard sounds. I have my Komplete but it's only a 49 meant to be played along with my hybrid acousticdigital piano. But I need a couch friend. Trying to decide between a 61 key midi keyboard or one of the cheap Rolands or Cassios that do have some sounds but connect to Midi. I just need something that sounds good that I can practice with. I can only sit at my real piano for an hour a day, if I'm lucky. Please help me pick my 61 key couch companion. My couch reclines so I can use thefootrest as well. I know I'm weird, going to put the pedal on the ootrest. I'm tired of my pain destroying my creativity. Still plan to learn Mac and integrate. But the Mac is in the piano room.
@LeonianUniverse Ah, I think I should have been clearer. I prefer Plug and Play and are more comfortable for ios and Braille right now than I am with my Mac. This keyboard is strictly going to be for my lap practice not connecting to a damned computer, where Windows can either update and fubar me, or Mac wscrew up because I don't know it well enough. I could get the 61 but for this purpose there's nothing to recommend it above others 61 key ones. I mean, I can get a keyboard with sounds for less than that. This is for me when I can't play with the miano. Thekomplete is going to be a passthrough for sounds forme to play on my acoustic piano with a silent system. This second keyboard is for me to work on my ear training, compose melodies, work on complicated rhythms. When I sit down at the piano because of my limited time I want to pllay the things I enjoy. I just want something that requires no computer. I just don't want to deal with the kinds of computer headaches I'v
If you want to play on your phone or Ipad, you still can with a 61-key keyboard like,, one from KK, there is a great app called Ableton Live that works as a stand-alone music production kit that has everything you need to compose music, and you can use a USB to USBC adapter to plug your keyboard in to your phone or Ipad.
@LeonianUniverse Cool. Ableton working on the phone now? i guess my ask is what would make this keyboard better than a controller or keyboard at alower price. Because a lot of the functions on the Komplete you can't use on ios.
@LeonianUniverse Ok hang on, Ableton doesn't make Live for iOS, however they do have Ableton Note which is sort of like a cut down version. You'd probably be better off with something that has some onboard sounds, maybe take a look at Roland's Go Keys or Go Piano if those are still being made, but I'm honestly not the best person to recommend stuff like this because I mainly do computer based production.
If I were you I would forget Komplete Kontrol for this use case. Practicing should be as frictionless as possible and you don't necessarily need a ton of sounds at your disposal just for that. I'd look at Yamaha's CK range. They have internal speakers, good onboard sounds and can even run on batteries.
@hub I keep telling myself that one day, when companies need to recruit again, they're going to offer WFM to edge out their competitors and the pendulum will swing the other way again.
Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...
You might think this is just another picture of a cat on a human.
But no!
This is a picture of our cat, Misti, who, for the first time since being adopted six months ago, stepped onto my lap completely of her own free will (as opposed to being bribed with treats) and sat there comfortably for about seven minutes.
The more I think and hear about it, the less I like Eloquence as a manditory subscription. I think CodeFactory should charge for major upgrades, or add a lifetime option, even if it's ten times the cost of the original Eloquence. I've already been burned more than once by Vocalizer randomly deciding I don't have a valid license anymore, forcing me to connect to the internet—which was pretty difficult when my phone refused to say anything except "Please register this copy of Vocalizer TTS." So I think I can be forgiven for not wanting that again. If there's no way to actually own a copy of this new Eloquence, I really hope someone cracks it. But I also know that if someone does crack it, many people will use the crack even if they can afford to pay for it. To be clear, I'll still pay for the subscription, because I want to support continued development of this stuff and no-one else is doing it. I don't even care if the subscription is $10/month. But if this gets abandoned the way everything else has, it will effectively die, and we won't have a leg to stand on because we paid for a month of usage, not perpetual usage. I have phones that still run the version of Eloquence I bought 10 years ago. If CodeFactory ever shuts this down, it'll be instantly gone. So mostly, I hope CodeFactory offers a one-time purchase option—even if it's expensive—so there's less of a need to do any of that. If that doesn't happen, and no one has worked out a way to bypass the activation entirely, I'll need to really think about whether I want my primary synthesizer to be in such a precarious position. @accessibleandroidmastodon.social/@accessibleand…
Public announcement from Code Factory: "Starting today, December 2, 2025, we are launching the public beta of Eloquence for Android. To ensure a smooth experience and gather valuable feedback, we’re releasing the beta in stages. This means we’ll be gradually inviting more users over time, starting with a limited group and expanding step by step. Join the beta from the following link: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Maybe that would be a good way to go. I don't currently use Android, but totally get your concerns given CF's track record. At the same time, I have read a lot of posts saying how developing for modern Android, and specifically how Google wants developers to keep their apps updated and built against the latest SDK's to avoid getting booted, I think I understand why they chose this monetisation path. I just hope, given there was a lot of hostility to this even before launch, that if everyone does jump on a cracked version if one gets released we won't end up with a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy where cf decides to stop supporting the app because noone was buying it, and no one was buying it because of the sub and CF's track record. So yeah, maybe a lifetime option isn't a horrible idea even if they price it high for a a lot of people.
@pitermach They essentially said they pulled it from the store because when it was cracked, sales dropped to virtually zero. That logic doesn't make sense to me, because that would mean sales would literally be zero if you pull it from the store, but there would definitely be higher chances of more purchases if it remained available. I'll take a wait and see approach for sure.
#Blind friends. It is long since time we took our responsibilities far more seriously and ensured our #sighted friends are more aware of where they are, where they are going and even where it is they hope to get. Next time an over eager person with sight approaches you, stop and ensure they know where it is they are, which direction they are traveling and even if they know what their destination is. when you encounter one who does congratulate them and see them on their way. #blindtravel #a11y
I'm surprised 2.2% of users using something counts as it being "barely used", given the size of curl's userbase. Is there a usage threshold that you look for, when considering cutting features, or do you consider features to cut on a case-by-case basis?
@mag well, only a tiny fraction of users respond to the survey and I always think people over-select. So yes, I think 2.2% is basically zero actual users.
We do this regularly but on case-by-case basis when someone brings some old sins out in the sunlight and we have a discussion.
@mag but also: we have this deprecation period to allow anyone and everyone to speak up and say something if we have misread the situation and we should reconsider
Totally random question: anyone know of a vendor that provides WiFi (802.11ac is fine, doesn't need to be newer) and BTLE IP (including the analogue bits) that we might not have spoken to?
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
DNS-PERSIST will be very welcome, although you can achieve a similar result with a webserver configuration that responds to ACME challenges automatically. It doesn't need to know what the challenge is to respond. Also works with a cluster of webservers then that don't have to know a challenge is coming and have the response ready
Of course it can't work if there will never be a webserver at the domain you're issuing the cert for
What's new people it's a Tuesday, work is super busy for the next 2 weeks before I and a lot of others take off the holidays. I plan to be off-work from December 19th to the end of the year. A well-deserved break, but until then, must dig my heals in.
Teen tästä vielä näin julkisenkin päivityksen: Pirkkalaiskirjailijoilla on pop up -myyjäiset ensi viikon torstaina, 11.12. klo 18-20 Pirkkalaisten tiloissa Sammonkadulla (se pieni sokeripalarakennus Sampolan "takapihalla").
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