and it begins. My brother literally behaves the way I do sometimes and nothing, but when I do I get called out. Going to do my best not to let this bother me, but I will be so glad when he's gone, when this whole few days is over. crawling into my bed with a western.
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasnāt the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
"how dare you *read between the lines* of direct statements like 'MY GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE EVERY LINE OF C AND C++ FROM MICROSOFT BY 2030' as if my words I actually wrote had obvious plain language meanings. so disingenuous"
I said it about Salesforce and I'll say it about Microsoft: LLMs are exposing how you can have a successful software company that has absolutely no technical expertise in the upper tiers.
One person who understands how LLMs work would have been enough. One person.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I think it's worth a screenshot of Galen's actual job listing on LinkedIn, for those unlikely to click further:
At the top of the hour, Robin and I will be back on HKC @radio to count down to Christmas with you. You'll also learn what, in addition to hanging out with his family, Gianluca has been up too based on some things that came up during part 1.
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).
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/1156902183ā¦
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 š
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 donāt generally post here as people have probably noticed, but hereās 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 donāt really maintain any web presence normally and I donāt want to post pdfās 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 canāt 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 isnāt. 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, āmachine-readableā and āscripts used to control compilation and installationā support their assertion in response to special interrogatory no. 4 that Defendant should ādeliver 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.ā
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 āthe scripts used to control compilation and installation,ā 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/2025/12/2ā¦ #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/pleromā¦
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/fruitstā¦, 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 thereās some options! I do intend to build my own with a color panel, and Iām 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 ā 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.
šµšµšµ Wouldn't it be nice if we were kinder and we didn't have to be such dicks? Wouldn't it be nice we could find a way to make that kindness stick?
If we could just keep our shit together you know this world would be sooo much better!
Did some work on a new high quality #nvda#tts engine for 2026. Unfortunately, I canāt 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?
@amir I think these are problems with supertonic itself. So I donāt know if I can fix them. I experience the same issues on the official Android app.
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 erƤƤn joulunajan tapahtumien tositarinan. Kutsutaan sitƤ nyt vaikka merenkulkijan jouluevankeliumiksi:
Jouluaaton ja -pƤivƤn vƤlisenƤ yƶnƤ 1947 kivihiililastissa ollut amerikkalainen hƶyrylaiva Park Victory oli pahoissa ongelmissa. Alus oli ankkuroitunut UtƶstƤ lƤnteen, Lillharun-nimisen saaren tuntumaan jouluaattoiltana odottamaan pƤivƤnvaloa. LumimyrskyssƤ Jussarƶn ja Harmajan vƤlillƤ olevan, sodan aikana tehdyn miinakentƤn lƤpi navigoiminen ei olisi ollut turvallista pimeƤssƤ ja lumimyrskyssƤ, vaikka miinakenttƤƤn oli raivattu suojakƤytƤvƤ. Aluksen ankkurit eivƤt kuitenkaan kyenneet pitƤmƤƤn alusta paikallaan kovassa myrskyssƤ vaan alus ajautui yƶn aikana useita kertoja karille kyeten kuitenkin irrottautumaan omalla konevoimalla. Lopulta alus osui 02:15 kariin keskilaivan kohdalta. Runko katkesi ja alus upposi parissa kymmenessƤ minuutissa.
Park Victoryn miehistƶ pelastautui lƤheisille kallioluodoille. Utƶn saarelta liikkeelle lƤhteneet kolme pelastusalusta ehti paikalle vasta aamulla. Pelastajat saivat turvaan 38 miehistƶn jƤsentƤ. 10 kuoli, syynƤ lƤhinnƤ hypotermia.
UtƶlƤiset majoittivat pelastuneet merimiehet koteihinsa. ErƤƤn luotsin kotiin majoitettiin laivan kapteeni sekƤ isokokoinen merimies, joka oli niin uupunut ettƤ nukahti istualleen kun hƤnet oli saatu lƤmpimƤƤn. Luotsin vaimo ryhtyi riisumaan merimieheltƤ mƤrkiƤ vaatteita ja hieromaan ihon verenkiertoa liikkeelle lƤmpimƤllƤ pyyhkeellƤ ihmetellen likaa joka ei irronnut ihosta millƤƤn. Ihmekƶs tuo kun ei ollut koskaan nƤhnyt mustaihoista ihmistƤ ennen.
Sodan jƤlkeisenƤ pula-aikana ylimƤƤrƤistƤ tavaraa, kuten vaatteita tai kenkiƤ ei ollut. TƤstƤ huolimatta saarelaiset lƶysivƤt auttavan vaatetuksen pelastuneille. Mainittu afroamerikkalainen merimies oli kuitenkin niin suurikokoinen ettƤ hƤnelle ei lƶytynyt riittƤvƤn suuria kenkiƤ mistƤƤn. Loppujen lopuksi isƤntƤ ratkaisi asian uhraamalla hiljattain ostamansa arvokkaat kumiterƤsaappaat. Niiden kƤrjet auki leikkaamalla saatiin edes jonkinlaiset jalkineet isokokoiselle merimiehelle.
Luotsi sai uudet kumiterƤsaappaat kun pelastetut merimiehet pƤƤsivƤt palaamaan ihmisten ilmoille. Paitsi pelastetut merimiehet, myƶs Yhdysvaltain liittovaltio muisti utƶlƤisia avustuspaketilla joka pula-aikana tuiki tarpeellisen ruoan lisƤksi sisƤlsi muun muassa myƶs tuolloin niin harvinaista kahvia sekƤ nailonsukkia joita ei saanut edes isommista kaupungeista.
Jotain olennaista utƶlƤisten mielenlaadusta kertoo, miten tavarat pƤƤtettiin jakaa. Tavarat myytiin kylƤlƤisten kesken huutokaupalla ja tuotolla ostettiin kymmenhaarainen hopeinen kynttelikkƶ. Sen jokaiseen haaraan kaiverrettiin haaksirikossa menehtyneen merimiehen nimi. Kynttelikkƶ on vielƤkin nƤhtƤvillƤ Utƶn hautausmaan keskellƤ olevassa rukoushuoneessa.
SƤƤstin tarinan loppuun aikaamme sopivan yksityiskohdan, jonka kuulin tapahtumista vasta pari vuotta sitten. Luotsin perheeseen majoitettu afroamerikkalainen merimies oli hƤmmƤstynyt kun hƤnet joulupƤivƤnƤ kutsuttiin isƤntƤvƤen kanssa samaan pƶytƤƤn syƶmƤƤn. HƤn oletti rotuerotteluun tottuneena, ettƤ hƤn sƶisi jossain muualla eikƤ isƤntƤvƤen ja kapteeninsa kanssa. EipƤ Utƶn pienissƤ taloissa olisi edes ollut toista paikkaa syƶdƤ. Pelastettujen merimiesten isƤnnille oli kuitenkin itsestƤƤn selvƤƤ ettƤ vieraat syƶvƤt samassa pƶydƤssƤ jouluaterialla.
So I want to get All-Star set up again on a raspberry pie that Iām pretty sure is going to end up in my custody tomorrow. But Iām 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: ācannot load VCSPEECH.JLS.ā Repairing JAWS or even uninstalling and reinstalling it doesnāt fix anything. I did some online research, and people who ran into the same problem say the only solution is reinstalling Windows 11. Seriously? Thatās absolutely ridiculous and completely unacceptable. Luckily, NVDA is my main screen reader. Iām honestly fed up with trying to troubleshoot this issue. Iām even considering ditching JAWS entirely at work, despite the fact that it still performs better in some environments and scenarios.
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