A lot of people talk shit about #Firefox's performance, but today I needed to convert a 200mb html file (don't ask). I thought no fucking way would Firefox open it, and if it would, my screen reader would die on it. So I tried pandoc. Pandoc completely choked on it and proceeded to OOM. After a measure of despair, I tried Firefox. It opened the file just fine, and converted it to text. Fucking win.
I recently picked up a cheap ($13) AM/FM/shortwave radio. XHDATA D-219. Cheap and cheerful. Feels like an analog radio, but has a digital tuner. Surprisingly good sound for it's tiny size, and a quite good and sensitive receiver, especially on FM.
One cool feature, though, is that SW band 4 happens to end right at 10 mHz, and SW band 7 starts at 15. The analog feeling tuning dial has end-stops.
So, even with the radio turned off, not looking at it (very handy for me, since I can't see it), I can go straight to WWV on either 10 or 15 mHz. 5 is trickier, and this radio doesn't pick up 2.5, 20 or 25 mHz. It has a gap between 18 and 21.
Anyway, I'm more excited about that than I really should be.
Yeah, I got one of those late last year. Given the price, I've found it to be an unusually pleasant investment. Just wish it could do SSB so I could read the CW mail, as it were.
@sclower yeah, that would be cool. I have a couple of other small radios for that, not including the two HT's I have that can tune down to 100 kHz, though they are not super sensitive outside of VHF/UHF. But they will do AM, SSB and CW.
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Well I don't know if this would help? you have 'Radio' in your name so maybe something you can use on the radio that costs nothing could be of use? hear-me.social/@Onj/1156902183…
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
@FreakyFwoof I deleted my last response and I apologize for it. I thought you were sending me music unsolicited which happens all the time and it's annoying because it's almost never appropriate for my channel. I see that you are offering production elements and that's nice. I'll get back to you on that in the next week or so
You are welcome. It's far too hard to find free-to-use music without jumping through 900 cookie popups etc, so I wanted to single-handedly fix it. Thank you for deleting previous response. I hope you get something out of it.
I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that.
And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the access to the hardware that it runs on.
The court case itself is a mess of two bad parties: Vizio and the SFC. Both of them look horribly bad in court - for different reasons.
Vizio used Linux in their TVs without originally making the source code available, and that was obviously not ok.
And the Software Freedom Conservancy then tries to make the argument that the license forces you to make your installation keys etc available, even though that is not the case, and the reason why the kernel is very much GPLv2 only. The people involved know that very well, but have argued otherwise in court.
End result: both parties have acted badly. But at least Vizio did fix their behavior, even if it apparently took this lawsuit to do so. I can’t say the same about the SFC.
Please, SFC - stop using the kernel for your bogus legal arguments where you try to expand the GPLv2 to be something it isn’t. You just look like a bunch of incompetent a**holes.
The only party that looks competent here is the judge, which in this ruling says
Plaintiff contends the phrases, “machine-readable” and “scripts used to control compilation and installation” support their assertion in response to special interrogatory no. 4 that Defendant should “deliver files such that a person of ordinary skill can compile the source code into a functional executable and install it onto the same device, such that all features of the original program are retained, without undue difficulty.”
The language of the Agreements is unambiguous. It does not impose the duty which is the subject of this motion.
Read as a whole, the Agreements require Vizio to make the source code available in such a manner that the source code can be readily obtained and modified by Plaintiff or other third parties. While source code is defined to include “the scripts used to control compilation and installation,” this does not mean that Vizio must allow users to reinstall the software, modified or otherwise, back onto its smart TVs in a manner that preserves all features of the original program and/or ensures the smart TVs continue to function properly. Rather, in the context of the Agreements, the disputed language means that Vizio must provide the source code in a manner that allows the source code to be obtained and revised by Plaintiff or others for use in other applications.
In other words, Vizio must ensure the ability of users to copy, change/modify, and distribute the source code, including using the code in other free programs consistent with the Preamble and Terms and Conditions of the Agreements. However, nothing in the language of the Agreements requires Vizio to allow modified source code to be reinstalled on its devices while ensuring the devices remain operable after the source code is modified. If this was the intent of the Agreements, the Agreements could have been readily modified to state that users must be permitted to modify and reinstall modified software on products which use the program while ensuring the products continue to function. The absence of such language is dispositive and there is no basis to find that such a term was implied here. Therefore, the motion is granted.
IOW, this makes it clear that yes, you have to make source code available, but no, the GPLv2 does not in any way force you to then open up your hardware.
My intention - and the GPLv2 - is clear: the kernel copyright licence covers the software, and does not extend to the hardware it runs on. The same way the kernel copyright license does not extend to user space programs that run on it.
If Google/YouTube cared about freedom of expression they would reject the copyright claim from CBS since the 60 minute segment didn't air. (I know this is not how copyright works).
This episode of the Democracy Paradox podcast offers insight into "ungoverning", attempts to undermine the administrative state in pursuit of authoritarian concentrations of power that contribute to democratic backsliding. democracyparadox.com/2025/12/2… #democracy #PoliticalScience
This is the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that got pulled in the US, but aired and airs in Canada, and is, at this moment, watchable here directly on Mastodon:
Could you also re-create the Hackney redirect handler MR that got lost in the revert? All it needs fixed is a |> URI.to_string() appended to the end of the absolute redirect function after URI.merge.
It will also probably have a merge conflict to develop from the URI encoding changes, so here's what I've been running for 2 months for reference: git.fluffytail.org/phnt/plerom…
I don't know if there's any truth to this, but this morning, I heard from someone who lives in Canberra that they had snow on Christmas Day in 2006. Not enough to stick, but enough to be noticed.
@BorrisInABox 2006 was the first Christmas we had in lutruwita after moving from Canberra... it was a pretty shite day there too. The highlight was watching a bloke in a wetsuit swim out to the Sandy Bay pontoon pushing a floating esky. He stood on the pontoon and cracked a beer. It was like 10 degrees and overcast... BOM records say it was between -1.8 and 1.7 degrees on the top of My Wellington/ kunanyi that day.
So I just removed and re-paired my bluetooth headset because, in Windows Bluetooth settings, it said it was only 10% paired. Now it says it's 20% paired. What can I do to force it the rest of the way and why might it be getting stuck? Thanks for any help.
@Wren Updated github.com/BasementCat/fruitst…, turned out I forgot to re-add deep_sleep after testing so my battery life was atrocious. This should be better now :)
They released newer versions of these displays, but oh well, this still works fine :)
Still using the #Fruitstand weather plugin daily, it's great :)
FYI, a friend brought the reTerminal E1001 (black-white) and E1002 (colour) after trying my XIAO 7.5". He doesn't use it with Fruitstand but with Puppet on Home Assistant but he said it's basically the same config so getting Fruitstand to work with those is probably fairly easy.
He stated they both have way better build quality, but he lamented the low memory making it very hard to get a proper colour image on the E1002.
good to know there’s some options! I do intend to build my own with a color panel, and I’m going to add an attached temp/humidity sensor for indoor stats. Might look at making a remote one for outdoors too if I feel motivated lol
'Alexa, what's my notification?' 'Andre, you have one notification. Your sex unwrapped is here. Would you like me to blart it out for all to hear?' 'Shut the actual hell up immediately!'
Did you know that #Abbott caused the deaths of seven diabetics this year?
Some of Abbott's continuous glucose monitors (ironically named the #FreeStyle #Libre 3 Plus) incorrectly reported low blood sugar — a grave & dangerous error for insulin-dependent #diabetes. I fortunately wasn't injured, but Abbott's refusal to allow public examination the technical details of their devices is tantamount to a cover-up.
I wrote
last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my
difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a
CGM) on my arm 24/7
to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague,
Karen M.
Did some work on a new high quality #nvda#tts engine for 2026. Unfortunately, I can’t get indexing to work. Even with AI. Help? Someone? It builds with scons. GitHub - fastfinge/supertonic-nvda: supertonic for nvda github.com/fastfinge/supertonic-nvda
Well, let me say that it sounds awesome! I really like it for its clarity of voices and natural intonation. But it has huge pauses with NVDA even when commas are encountered. And initial syllables, vowels or consonants are oftentimes missed, and it becomes more evident as we increase the speech rate or speech quality. So 8:34 AM may be announced as 34 AM. Should I open issues on Github? I mean is this something you may want to improve?
More importantly, stopping speech doesn't work. Your approach seems to be wrong. The speak method runs in the main thread, and I assume synthesizing blocks.
@tspivey That's much better. synthesizing now has its own thread. And audio ducking works. Unfortunately, say all still doesn't. I just don't understand how or why indexes work. Neither does Gemini. So I'm stuck.
@tspivey Oh! Why? Doesn't it...oh, never mind. That works perfectly, now. I really, really wish I actually had any talent at this. Writing NVDA addons always makes me feel like a cargo cult programmer.
@McOi Hmm? Not only Rambllio uses thhem. Had to sign into Claude and same shit. E-Mail to an account I didn't hahve on thhat device, had to send the link on some messenger. Why not just let me use sign in with a password, or a code like every normal site does.
Maybe around the summer of 2000, for about a week, visiting various websites, when the page loaded, I would get a very distorted lady saying "Verisign is a bad company" playing over my sound card. Anyone remember that?
Sent an email to a group of people, one of which included an Earthlink email which requires I fill out some kind of form before the recipient gets my message. Except I'm prompted to sign into Earthlink before I do anything. So, sorry Earthlink person; you'll never hear from me again.
Kirjoitin auki erään joulunajan tapahtumien tositarinan. Kutsutaan sitä nyt vaikka merenkulkijan jouluevankeliumiksi:
Jouluaaton ja -päivän välisenä yönä 1947 kivihiililastissa ollut amerikkalainen höyrylaiva Park Victory oli pahoissa ongelmissa. Alus oli ankkuroitunut Utöstä länteen, Lillharun-nimisen saaren tuntumaan jouluaattoiltana odottamaan päivänvaloa. Lumimyrskyssä Jussarön ja Harmajan välillä olevan, sodan aikana tehdyn miinakentän läpi navigoiminen ei olisi ollut turvallista pimeässä ja lumimyrskyssä, vaikka miinakenttään oli raivattu suojakäytävä. Aluksen ankkurit eivät kuitenkaan kyenneet pitämään alusta paikallaan kovassa myrskyssä vaan alus ajautui yön aikana useita kertoja karille kyeten kuitenkin irrottautumaan omalla konevoimalla. Lopulta alus osui 02:15 kariin keskilaivan kohdalta. Runko katkesi ja alus upposi parissa kymmenessä minuutissa.
Park Victoryn miehistö pelastautui läheisille kallioluodoille. Utön saarelta liikkeelle lähteneet kolme pelastusalusta ehti paikalle vasta aamulla. Pelastajat saivat turvaan 38 miehistön jäsentä. 10 kuoli, syynä lähinnä hypotermia.
Utöläiset majoittivat pelastuneet merimiehet koteihinsa. Erään luotsin kotiin majoitettiin laivan kapteeni sekä isokokoinen merimies, joka oli niin uupunut että nukahti istualleen kun hänet oli saatu lämpimään. Luotsin vaimo ryhtyi riisumaan merimieheltä märkiä vaatteita ja hieromaan ihon verenkiertoa liikkeelle lämpimällä pyyhkeellä ihmetellen likaa joka ei irronnut ihosta millään. Ihmekös tuo kun ei ollut koskaan nähnyt mustaihoista ihmistä ennen.
Sodan jälkeisenä pula-aikana ylimääräistä tavaraa, kuten vaatteita tai kenkiä ei ollut. Tästä huolimatta saarelaiset löysivät auttavan vaatetuksen pelastuneille. Mainittu afroamerikkalainen merimies oli kuitenkin niin suurikokoinen että hänelle ei löytynyt riittävän suuria kenkiä mistään. Loppujen lopuksi isäntä ratkaisi asian uhraamalla hiljattain ostamansa arvokkaat kumiteräsaappaat. Niiden kärjet auki leikkaamalla saatiin edes jonkinlaiset jalkineet isokokoiselle merimiehelle.
Luotsi sai uudet kumiteräsaappaat kun pelastetut merimiehet pääsivät palaamaan ihmisten ilmoille. Paitsi pelastetut merimiehet, myös Yhdysvaltain liittovaltio muisti utöläisia avustuspaketilla joka pula-aikana tuiki tarpeellisen ruoan lisäksi sisälsi muun muassa myös tuolloin niin harvinaista kahvia sekä nailonsukkia joita ei saanut edes isommista kaupungeista.
Jotain olennaista utöläisten mielenlaadusta kertoo, miten tavarat päätettiin jakaa. Tavarat myytiin kyläläisten kesken huutokaupalla ja tuotolla ostettiin kymmenhaarainen hopeinen kynttelikkö. Sen jokaiseen haaraan kaiverrettiin haaksirikossa menehtyneen merimiehen nimi. Kynttelikkö on vieläkin nähtävillä Utön hautausmaan keskellä olevassa rukoushuoneessa.
Säästin tarinan loppuun aikaamme sopivan yksityiskohdan, jonka kuulin tapahtumista vasta pari vuotta sitten. Luotsin perheeseen majoitettu afroamerikkalainen merimies oli hämmästynyt kun hänet joulupäivänä kutsuttiin isäntäväen kanssa samaan pöytään syömään. Hän oletti rotuerotteluun tottuneena, että hän söisi jossain muualla eikä isäntäväen ja kapteeninsa kanssa. Eipä Utön pienissä taloissa olisi edes ollut toista paikkaa syödä. Pelastettujen merimiesten isännille oli kuitenkin itsestään selvää että vieraat syövät samassa pöydässä jouluaterialla.
So I want to get All-Star set up again on a raspberry pie that I’m pretty sure is going to end up in my custody tomorrow. But I’m also curious if said raspberry pie can also run any home automation software at the same time on the same SD card. Any suggestion/comment?
Absolutely! I tried Home Assistant on my RP5 and it worked just fine. You may want to run it in a docker setup though, but not strictly necessary. I ended up uninstalling Home Assistant as I did not find it added anything to what I already get with the Google Home app. :)
When JAWS goes crazy! Both my work desktop and my laptop have JAWS 2026, with the company covering the licenses. But after updating my laptop to the December build of JAWS 2026 a couple of days ago, I started getting this awful error: “cannot load VCSPEECH.JLS.” Repairing JAWS or even uninstalling and reinstalling it doesn’t fix anything. I did some online research, and people who ran into the same problem say the only solution is reinstalling Windows 11. Seriously? That’s absolutely ridiculous and completely unacceptable. Luckily, NVDA is my main screen reader. I’m honestly fed up with trying to troubleshoot this issue. I’m even considering ditching JAWS entirely at work, despite the fact that it still performs better in some environments and scenarios.
Just a random observation. On FB someone posted up a thing asking who you'd like to kiss under the mistletoe, as in which celebrity. Is it just me, or does it seem that the majority of the sighted population picks actors/actresses? Meanwhile, I'll pick a musician every time.
@FreakyFwoof Also, maybe I'm weird, but I have never looked at a stranger a.k.a. a celebrity and thought wow I really want to make out with a person that I don't know and I've never spoken to! I have never understood having crushes on celebrities ever and I feel like such a weird outlier lol
@pawpower Not weird to me, quite normal. I mean I've heard some voices in programs I've thought hmm yeah that's kinda nice, but I'm not jumping out of planes to impress them or anything ridiculous.
@FreakyFwoof @pawpower Make out with? Definitely not. Talk to for hours on end? Yeah, there are a couple (non-fiction) writers I'd very gladly do that with.
@miki @FreakyFwoof Oh, there are definitely authors and historical figures I would love to sit down and chat with, but this kind of fetishizing or lusting after celebrities based on either physical appearance or the way they sound just has never been something I've understood. I'm interested in peoples thought processes and life experiences and that's what really makes me want to get to know them more.
Random Company Email: hi, we have an important thing to tell you.Which we could have put in this email.But we're going to ask you to click on this link to go to our website and then sign in to see the information.
V Liberci se ve středu sešli lidé na srazu trapných vánočních svetrů. V místní kavárně se už tradičně koná sváteční setkání. Letos se poprvé budou vánoční svetry i oceňovat.
If the guy who invented the GIF saying it’s a soft G Isn’t enough to win the argument, then Bruce Willis saying ‘Die Hard’ isn’t a Christmas movie sure as shit doesn’t settle anything.
I'm playing around with all three United States mobile carriers in my parents' neighborhood in central North Carolina.
Verizon and T-Mobile both do very well inside city limits, and are about neck and neck in this neighborhood in particular. Good, but not great. AT&T, in the immediate neighborhood, is the worse performer in terms of signal and speed.
T-Mobile is faster than Verizon in some places, but drops out and doesn't exist at all in others where both AT&T and Verizon still work.
I am really tempted to do that, but because I am in just two locations at most, it's more of a "ooh I wonder" kind of thing. How has switching worked out in practice? Like is it really as seamless as they make it out to be?
@twynn There are a couple of different ways you can do it. You can either use a dual network configuration, where you get two numbers that are on the same plan, then you just switch depending on which is better if you just use the same two all the time. Especially easy when you use two eSIMs. Or, you can do a network switch request, it takes a few minutes, usually 10 or so, you get a new eSIM, and that's that. Because I have two eSIMs on my phone, I have to delete one of them before I can install a new one, otherwise it would be a little faster.
basically, they are doing a port request on the back end every time you switch. Given that, it's pretty seamless.
Wait, aren't you on iOS? I thought that you could store multiple eSIMs, but only two can be active at once. is that not how that actually works? So id you do dual, you're paying for two lines, right?
@twynn It's an extra $10 a month if you do the dual network stack thing. Yes, I think you are supposed to be able to store eight eSIMs( but at least for me, I can't seem to install a new one until I delete one.
Oh, huh. That's actually pretty reasonable, and I might actually switch at some point in the future, so may bother you for an invite code one of these days.
FYI: I'll be getting a 2 TB external hard drive tomorrow and I'm also getting an iPhone 17 and I don't know what else what I'm getting, that's all I know for my christmas presence. Have fun.
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