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My 92 year old aunt: You do the Leenux thing, right? You need to come over sometime and install it for me, because f#ck all I ain't gonna update to Windows 11.

Me: .... ?!#!?

I explain what the change-over entails and that I generally don't recommend it just because...

Aunt: No, f#ck that, f#ck capitalism, my laptop is still fine, so come over and set me up with that Leenux thing.

#Linux #christmas

#linux #christmas

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Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.

Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).

Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.

They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that can’t be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.

I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.

Dependencies:

  • jq
  • zint
  • magick
  • unzip
  • curl or wget

gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pk…

Usage:

pkpass2png <a href="https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass" rel="ugc">https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass</a> ticket.png
#shell
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📻 **Vánoce za socialismu: Splněné plány, obchody plné zboží a málo sněhu.**
#mujrozhlas

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*Velký výlet do rozhlasového archivu a poslech štědrovečerních zpráv ze 60., 70. a 80. let odhalí, jak tehdy rozhlas o Vánocích vysílal.*

- Buďte rádi, že vám v domácnostech o vánocích vůbec půjde plyn a elektřina.

- Jak je to hrozný v zemích krachujícího prohnilýho Západu.

- Co je ruský, to je nejlepší. Srovnání s dnešním ruským fašismem se tak nějak nabízí samo.

- Zkrátka obludnost totalitního režimu v celý svý vánoční kráse.

**Komunisti všech zemí, vyližte si prdel!**

Vánoce za socialismu: Splněné plány, obchody plné zboží a málo sněhu

Štědrý den je přeci jen tak trochu jiným dnem. Sváteční atmosféra, umocněná očekáváním večerní nadílky, se projevila i v rozhlasovém zpravodajství. Velký výlet do rozhlasového archivu a poslech štědrovečerních zpráv ze 60., 70. a 80.
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#mujrozhlas

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I just released Christmas Dash 1.0.1 for Linux. I'll be releasing the Windows version in a minute here, but this one is a test build. It adds a speech interrupt setting, as that is a very important setting for Linux users. Please tell me if it works (works for me but that's because I'm using WSL), and if it doesn't, reach out.

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tunmi13

So just tested it out in WSL. Strangely enough, I'm not experiencing this weird so-called upload score bug, I managed to upload just fine. With a terrible score mind you, since it was for testing purposes, but definitely works. Perhaps I must have fixed something without knowing, or it's Python being Python as usual. I'll keep looking into it, but for now I'll push what I have.

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⌨ FUTO klávesnice pro Android se naučila přidat obrázek do pozadí

infoek.cz/futo-klavesnice-pro-…

⌨ FUTO keyboard for Android has learned to add a background image

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#FUTO #Opensource #Android #Mobileapps #Privacy

FUTO klávesnice pro Android se naučila přidat obrázek do pozadí | Infoek.cz

Softwarových klávesnic pro mobily existuje několik, ale drtivá většina uživatelů používá ty přednastavené výrobcem. Takové klávesnice jsou sice kvalitní a d ...
Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
#android #opensource #privacy #futo #mobileapps

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my five steps to getting out of bed in the morning:

1. pretend you do not hear the alarm.
2. verbally deny that it is time to get up. hit snooze.
3. negotiate five more minutes with the nearest person or deity.
4. express intense anger in your words and tone to demand that it not be morning.
5. accept it with a big sigh and stand up.

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Here's the christmas question of the day. Do you believe that the 12 days of christmas compounds or just lists the things you get as a reminder? Watched some christmas movie I had never heard of with Eddie murphy in it called Candy Cane Lane where this dude signs a contract with an elf gone bad (think sell your soul to the devil). Elf tells him that he needs the five golden rings or he'll turn into an ornament but gets him on a technicality by saying nope, you really need 40 rings because 5 golden rings appears 8 times in the song. Sneaky. So. Does it compound? or no. Thoughts?

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Last week, I threw together Syntherceptor, a SAPI5 synthesiser which speaks using NVDA. This is useful for apps like Komplete Kontrol, Surge, etc. which use SAPI5 but you'd prefer the speech output to happen using your NVDA synthesiser and settings. This also prevents voices from speaking over each other, allows you to interrupt speech with a key press, etc. There is an existing project called NVDASapi which already does this, but we can't seem to identify or contact its developer, it isn't open source, it doesn't interrupt speech when the app requests it and it's a bit tricky to install. That said, Syntherceptor is very early in development, so you may wish to tread carefully. If it crashes, it'll probably crash the app you're using, so save your work regularly, though I haven't seen that happen yet. syntherceptor.jantrid.net/

Syntherceptor

syntherceptor.jantrid.net

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Christmas PSA about not being a dick

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@Friendica Support i really wish there was another option for having a dark theme in #Friendica. i would like having a multi-shade black / charcoal page, with lavender / violet accents, but so far have not found a way to achieve it (note, for many years i used to use the #Stylus AddOn, with which i created numerous custom themes for many sites, but a year ago i disabled it & others as part of my desire to begin minimising all non-essential AO attack surfaces). Though in many ways using #DarkReader for Friendica is quite good, overall i tend to eschew it being on for this site, coz it hides that handy temporary shading highlight of posts in a thread for which a Notification was received.

The small number of current dark themes offer me a rather unappealing colour choice.

The custom theme option initially excited me, til i realised, afaict, it is based on the Light theme, with no Dark theme option, so that all the dialogue boxes & dropdown menus remain eye-piercingly bright white, that hurts my eyes. The least-worst i could conjure was

{"nav_bg":"#54207b","nav_icon_color":"#f3d0f1","link_color":"#5b38a6","background_color":"#5b4d71","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"42"}

but as mentioned, too much blinding white remains.

inevitably then, i keep returning to the so-called Black theme, but it is... quite boring. the entire page is simply all a single "shiny" black tone, with my chosen accent relieving the monotony. compare this to the so-called Dark themes, to see the difference; they use different shades of the base colour, which is more visually appealing, creating a "panelled" effect.

#friendica #stylus #darkreader @Friendica Support
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pasjrwoctx👽

@Droppie [opensoc] is this your own instance do you have access to all the files if so go to view themes and open up the style CSS for the theme you're using and look for all the colors are and change them through the code it takes a lot of trial and error to get it quite right then save it as a new theme in a new folder move everything else to that folder along with that style then enable it in admin go back to your settings select your new theme and you should have what you want again it takes a bunch of trial and error and a little bit of time to go through it and do it I had done that a couple of times ended up going back to White but I've made all my icons green anyways if it's your own instance you can copy the style sheet like I said copy the entire thing over to a new folder under a new name or rename the current style is style x and your new one is the regular style

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Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

Should be no surprise considering bsky constantly protects nazis, the far right, and all flavors of bigotry at the expense of Palestinians and trans women.

Fortunately, their information already spread so far and wide that at least half of the Blood Tribe nazis lost their jobs following the mass doxx. Chris Pohlhaus, leader of BT, estimated financial losses at over $2 million lol. Happy holidays!

Screenshot from a post by @svartflagg on Bluesky: I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Auto Light: a specialized replacement for the standard Android adaptive brightness feature 🛡️

6 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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I suspect far too many of us are trapped in cycles of escape that consume all our time, attention, and energy rather than the things we would like to create.

I'm hooked on watching hours of YouTube videos, and I justify it by clinging to the positive that is that it feeds my 'random number generator' and allows my brain to do a lot of thinking in the background.

But I have all sorts of projects that I'd like to develop and work on that I never seem to have the time or energy for.

I talk myself out of blocking time for things because my attention might be called away or I will spend the next 82 hours working on it because of hyper-focus.

I'm personally averse to routine, and that's something I'm working to change, or at least do in moderation.

Then, I feel overwhelmed and reload the YouTube tab, and queue up another video.

Problem for future Bob. ;)

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Usually when Christmas is over, I instantly cut the Christmas music with a click. This has been the case for years. This year, what I will do instead is disable it, re-enable the normal music, then let the Christmas music empty itself from the queue. This way, rather than closing out with a bang, we slowly return to normality. Hopefully this keeps the
spirit going for a bit longer, without an abrupt ending.

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During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.

Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that: propublica.org/article/propubl…

#Nonprofit #Charity #Research #Donate #Holidays #Finance


Nonprofit Explorer Adds Powerful Tools to Help You Research Organizations’ Financials

You can now search for organizations that have reported a significant theft, as well as those that have had auditors flag serious financial issues.
Andrea Suozzo (ProPublica)
#charity #research #nonprofit #donate #finance #holidays

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Today I learned why Sonata #TTS created a framework to run AI voices outside of #NVDA. First, NVDA doesn't come with all of the #Python standard libraries. Second, there's no good way of updating dependencies in a bundled addon. Third, NVDA really, really hates it if you include several hundred dependencies in your addon. Anyway, here's kitten TTS, the other synthesizer I wanted to try with NVDA. Unfortunately, the model doesn't support streaming output, so even though it's actually faster than Supertonic, it feels slower when used with NVDA. Also, it takes several minutes to install, makes NVDA startup 30 seconds slower, and freezes the change synthesizer dialogue for about 45 seconds when you open it. It does miss words less frequently, though, and pronounces text better. The ultimate result of my two-day investigation is that even the highly optimized open-source AI imbedded models are not yet ready for screen reader use. Some tree-shaking could fix some of these issues, but it still won't allow for streaming, so it's not worth it. I'd really like to know what Microsoft and Narrator are doing to get the natural voices so snappy. github.com/fastfinge/kittentts-nvda/#screenreader

GitHub - fastfinge/kittentts-nvda: proof of concept kittentts synthDriver for NVDA

proof of concept kittentts synthDriver for NVDA. Contribute to fastfinge/kittentts-nvda development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#screenreader #python #nvda #tts
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