absolutely losing it. My mom received a spam call that got picked up by Google call screening on her phone, and it ended up responding with one of the more unhinged Asterisk voice recordings before hanging up LMAO
So... I need to do an eyes-free Windows 11 virtual machine install on Mac OS (Parallels). Is Narrator still non-functional on the current latest ISO image(s) from Microsoft? Should I go find an older version?
Parallels has an easy install thing that does the installing for you. When it's done you should be on the desktop of your new VM and you can then enable Narator from there.
@ondrosik Thanks for publishing it online for all of us to enjoy and reuse. It's very important to see an example of real personal creativity these times when AI is dominating the space of background music, jingles and other short tracks.
I've done what I set out to do by the end of the year. I made it to 180 tracks in the collection. I stopped at 171 in May of 2023, then I just couldn't focus on much music for the last couple of years which, as a composer, really depressed me, but this December I decided to really try and sit down to make a go of it, so I did. It may not seem like much, but not being able to write, when it's what I've done for 30 years felt very stifling and depressing in ways I cannot express.
My next goal is to hit 200, so I'll start work on that, hopefully soonest.
I just want to thank every person that favourited, reposted or interacted with me on my self-assigned journey recently. You're all wonderful humans, even those that said they had no use for such a project, which is totally fine. They still shared it most of the time, and I respect that.
Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.
Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast, show reel, powerpoint presentation, youtube video or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you, and if not you directly, maybe someone you know.
This is not the final form. I add to it whenever I find inspiration to do so. Check back every so often as you may find more content was added when you weren't looking 🔇
Currently: 1210 items 766 MB download in mp3 over 9 hours of music.
Absolutely no AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.
If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks. onj.me/shorts
Přede mnou poslední pracovní týden (? možná - si ještě skočím do práce 22. a 23. chystat nové nástupy). Stihnout se toho musí jako obvykle tři prdele. V pondělí IT večírek. V úterý reinstalace notebooku majitelky. Ve středu výměna notebooku. Ve čtvrtek další večírek. A v pátek, aby toho nebylo málo, naaaaa Vsetíně, tam je luka, seče jú syneček.... Od rána až do večera. To bude náročné.
A samozřejmě očekávám uživatele, kteří si podají požadavek 19. prosince a 5. ledna se zeptají, proč to ještě není hotové.
@archos @cynik_obecny @nacelnik01 Taky funguju na solár, ale letos, jak není zima, jako že nemrzne, mi to vadí nějak méně. Ale bylo by fajn, kdyby se přestal posouvat čas, to mi vadí stejně jako nedostatek světla.
@archos Nemám. Hledám. Tak kdybyste o něčem věděli, dejte echo. Dva roky jsem se teď pohyboval v kybernetické bezpečnosti, vím něco o PAMech, sítích, vulnerability managementu, firewallech …
Nice one, just locked myself out of my Raspberry Pi because I apparently forgot the passphrase to my ssh key and back then didn't care so much to, you know, do the logical thing and save it somewhere. A good reason to try out the new imager. It was an almost clean installation anywaay so not loosing anything.
TFW you try to find a spec for something and when you finally found it on the Wayback machine, since trillion dollars corps can keep URL alive, and you go to save it, you are told it's already there...
Really impressed with my Bazzite VR experience today. Was able to play a few hours of Half Life: Alyx and Boneworks today :D The main issue I ran into (with both) is that Steam Link will cut out when you first launch the game when trying to pre-compile shaders. Sometimes this leads to Steam VR bugging out and requiring a reboot in order to reconnect. After the first launch the experience was completely seamless.
You know, I just had the funniest thing happen, I just hear heard part of this story aparently the US has just spent 142 million dollars to, and about that time I hit my down arrow key and my system said, Play the great toy robbery. Made my day.
@BorrisInABox well when I try and toot from it, I get Error while handling "compose post": ('Mastodon API returned error', 500, 'Internal Server Error', None)
their bulk downloader sucks because it fails often so I had to make a custom script to extract all the links I wanted out of their HTML so I could download them with curl
The AI Research Sector Is Being Destroyed by Something Incredibly Ironic The AI Research Sector Is Being Destroyed by Something Incredibly Ironic share.google/ZKLSNO6frU1btoX4h
On a more positive note, it's absolutely heartwarming seeing the number of patches and contributions from community members increasing in Thunderbird.
The massive undertaking of replacing old weird undocumented code with modern coding standards and languages, as well as increasing our documentation is slowly paying off.
Yes, we know, we accidentally broke a bunch of things in the process, sorry. This stuff is hard 🫠
@klittle667 Ray Porter narrating the Bobiverse series does a pretty good admiral ackbar. I don't generally read audio books, but I read that series, at least the first three, like that.
If I wrote an app that projected out your pay and bill schedules, and told you when to expect to come up short and by how much, is that something people would pay for or watch ads to use?
I've done that sort of thing before, for a personal project to help me manage my money better.
I really need an income, so if you have other ideas, please let me know.
Usual reminder that if you have an issue with a software and you open a bug report you can simply write down your problem and ask for help, without needing to sprinkle the usual abuse and telling the folks that caused that problem that they're stupid and should get fired.
Let's see how many "no, I'm entitled to be abusive" messages I'll get
Le gars qui a perdu 20 ans de données et 30 000 boules de matos en se faisant ban par Apple. Bon, ben lui mon empathie est en panne. C'est moche, je sais mais franchement faut vraiment être con pour avoir à ce point tout délégué les yeux fermés.
Et alors la cerise sur le tas de WTF, ouiouiner en argumentant que son expertise devrait lui valoir un réexamen par un humain, mais enfin il a à ce point rien compris à ce qui lui arrive là ?
C'est méchant, vraiment. bien sûr qu'il aurait dû faire une copie de toutes ses données, c'est clair. Mais bloquer absolument tout à cause d'une carte de cadeau… c'est quelque chose d'un autre niveau d'ignominie.
Alors voilà exactement ce que je veux dire. Le pb n'est pas "comment" ça a été bloqué mais le blocage en lui même. Jveux dire c'est l'existence même du blocage par l'opérateur qui est le problème. Et je t'invite à aller consulter ce qui touche ce procureur de la CPI depuis quelques mois pour évaluer l'ampleur de la toute puissance des fournisseurs. Soit le droit est le même pour toustes, soit c'est l'arbitraire. Nous sommes dans le règne de l'arbitraire. dalloz-actualite.fr/flash/l-en…
@menelion demander un traitement de faveur n'est pas une solution. Cela fait partie du problème. Ce monsieur il devrait pouvoir exiger la restitution des produits et services dont il est l'acquéreur sans que ça fasse un pli.
@menelion que s'apelerio l'État de droit... Les implication politiques, dans le sens comment faisons nous société, sont colossales. Sommes nous égaux et en position de demander des comptes, oui y compris à Apple, ou pas ?
ah, maintenant je te comprends. Oui, t'as raison, ce n'est pas un bon argument. Mais il est tout simplement super vexé et, imaginant moi-même à ça place, je comprends ses émotions aussi.
Since taking office this year, Carney has scrapped Canada’s consumer carbon tax, courted the oil and gas sector and axed a scheme to boost electric vehicle sales in response to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
In recent weeks, Carney has also signed a deal to produce an extra million barrels of crude oil a day after pledging to double Canada’s liquefied natural gas production for new markets in Asia.
While Carney’s pact with Alberta includes a plan to secure industrial carbon pricing before April 1, it delays the province’s methane reduction target to 2035. Control of methane, the main component of gas, is regarded as the most effective measure in the short term in tackling global warming.
The plan also suspends clean electricity regulations, cuts a proposed oil and gas emissions cap, and was signed without consulting coastal First Nations, which oppose any new pipeline project.
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As part of trade negotiations with Washington, Carney is open to reviving the Keystone XL pipeline linking Alberta to Nebraska — cancelled by former US president Joe Biden on environmental grounds — to aid US energy security
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Mark Campanale, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, which framed many of the risks expounded by Carney in 2015, said scaling up renewable projects to deliver free daytime electricity — using the Australian example — would be a better government strategy than encouraging the expansion of oil and gas.
“We’re seeing governments like Canada, which are investing money in projects that might never be profitable, that go counter to their own climate objectives, and that’s really concerning,” he said.
Ungewöhnlich für mich, aber offenbar gerade nötig:
Der Sohn einer Bekannten hat Krebs. Leukämie. Die Chemo schlägt nicht an, er braucht eine Blutzellenspende, sonst wird er sterben. Ich selbst würde gerne helfen, darf aber aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht spenden. Falls eine Spende möglich ist, geht es um einige Stunden rumsitzen mit Schlauch im Arm. Der Arbeitsausfall wird offenbar erstattet.
Weihnachtswunder im Fediverse? Bitte helft und teilt!
I wonder if @stefano would be interested in hosting one on the BSD.cafe infra?
Note: it adds a custom package repo to fetch a couple things not in the ports tree right now (incl a Dovecot patch I need to see if we can get into the port or as a flavor). It's hosted on my home fiber internet, but it might be slow. I'm going to get it moved somewhere with better bandwidth soon.
edit: also the FreeBSD 14 package set is still building... 15 is ready though
this is extremely interesting. I installed and am hosting a BSD Cafe chatmail relay (chatmail.bsd.cafe) but currently on Debian, planning to move it to a BSD as soon as it can run (reliably). I'll definitely look at it. Thank you!
oh wow 😍, please give mine a spin and let me know!
My method with the Chef cookbook does DNS-01 validation with Lego instead of HTTP-01 so it works behind NAT and other weird setups, even private.
If you spin up a test server and don't want to setup additional DNS records yet just remove the two opendkim lines from the Postfix master.cf, then you should be able to test a few accounts and it will work.
Additionally the FreeBSD deployment expects ZFS, creates a dedicated filesystem for the data, and you can also define a custom quota for it so abusers won't be able to fill up the disk and kill the server completely anyway. Also it uses ZFS compression for the maildir files instead of relying on Dovecot to do it for you.
In theory, you could set it up and sync the files over and it will work (might have to fix UID/GID for /home/vmail/*) as I left the Dovecot config on so it can still read the Dovecot-compressed files
I tried to install the chef client you suggested (cinc) in a BastilleBSD thin jail, but: ln: /usr/bin/cinc-solo: Read-only file system postinst: Cannot link cinc-solo to /usr/bin Installation failed
It tries to write into /usr/bin - so it seems the cinc installation script, despite downloading binaries for FreeBSD (14, even if I'm using 15) doesn't respect the FreeBSD way of installing external stuff.
I tried to install rubygem-chef-bin from ports - but:
chef-client -z -o chatmail -j attributes.json Not applying net/http monkey patch needed for ruby 3.1 [2025-12-14T09:07:58+01:00] WARN: No config file found or specified on command line. Using command line options instead. /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/mixlib-log-3.0.9/lib/mixlib/log.rb:119: warning: Logger not initialized properly /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/mixlib-log-3.0.9/lib/mixlib/log/logger.rb:35: info: Mixlib::Log::Logger#initialize: does not call super probably Chef Infra Client, version 18.8.11 Patents: chef.io/patents Infra Phase starting /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/ffi-yajl-2.3.4/lib/ffi_yajl/encoder.rb:42: warning: undefining the allocator of T_DATA class FFI_Yajl::Ext::Encoder::YajlGen [2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided. [2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [][2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[chatmail]] Resolving cookbooks for run list: ["chatmail"] Synchronizing cookbooks: - chatmail (0.2.0) Installing cookbook gem dependencies: Compiling cookbooks...
Uncensored AI weather explanations now in accessiWeather by letting you select specific models in a new dialog on the AI tab; view the example here
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I couldn't resist. Added the ability to select unmoderated/uncensored models for your AI Weather Explanations fun. I think you get the picture.
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Oh, what a delightful shitstorm of a weather situation we've got here, you lucky bastards! Right now, you've got a clear sky that's fucking freezing your balls off at a chilly 42.8°F. It's a fucking shocker that the humidity's at a moderate 57%, which might just keep you from feeling like a popsicle. The wind's blowin' in from the west at about 5.7 mph, zipping through your clothes and reminding you that winter's a trash-slaying bitch.
This afternoon, brace yourselves for a damp fuckfest with a slight chance of rain showers, and winds up to 10 mph that'll make sure you feel the breeze. But tonight, honey, it's gonna get wild: a mix of rain and snow, with winds dropping to a soothing 5 mph, perfect for a slow fuckin' style. You'll feel the temperature plunge down to a fucking frigid 25.0°F, keeping things icy and intense.
Come Sunday, this shit gets serious with heavy snow, followed by a chance of snow showers. The wind's gonna pick up its pace to 15 mph, ensuring that the snow hasn't gotten enough rest. The temperature'll hover around a despairing 31.0°F, so wrap it up tight, you filthy animals.
Sunday night, things clear up mostly, but the temps drop dramatically to a frigid 15.0°F. You'll want to fucking huddle under layers. But don't worry, Monday brings most sunshine, with a warmish 30.0°F to lift your spirits, and winds around 10 mph. Tuesday night finds you under mostly cloudy skies, with temps dipping to a cold but tolerable 18.0°F.
So, whether you're into frosty fucking or just want to feel the bite of winter, this weather's got a shit-ton of experiences to offer, you horny little weather enthusiasts! Just don't forget to bundle up and stay safe, unless you're into that kind of shit.
Uncensored AI weather explanations now in accessiWeather by letting you select specific models in a new dialog on the AI tab; view the example here
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@jonathan859 That was not X AI, no. You can filter by available free models, and Grok isn't one of them; need to double check if it is still free. That was Venis AI.
Evening mastofolks! So @daygar and I wrote a song for the #ChristmasReapers project again this year. We, along with 19 other amazing artists, made it onto the album, Christmas Through The Years. We're track 13 (not 4 as I first thought...sorry Day). Our backing vocals are also on track 1 of the album, which is a cover version of Train's Shake Up Christmas. If you'd like to buy the album, it is available on Bandcamp at: christmasreapers.bandcamp.com/… All proceeds from the album will go towards #REAPER and #Osara, music software made accessible for blind and partially sighted users. Thanks in advance for reading. Boosts for reach much appreciated.
@Scott Well I'd definitely say I'm more confident. Whether that's improved my actual technique or not I'm not sure, but I guess what you might call the "mic-shyness" has gone now.
@Scott Well, that means that I finally made it to a Christmas album too I guess, although as a bass background vocalist instead of an actual song. Uhm... great anyway, I guess.
@ToniBarth @Scott It's still a milestone. My first contribution to a Christmas album was as a keys player and a few sound effects. Nothing major - but it helped somebody and so I was satisfied with that.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
What’s New Gajim now supports playing animated GIF, WEBP, AVIF, and PNG files directly in the chat. Animations will play once you click the play button.
Winter blue tardis
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