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A sad death in my family

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Servers described as "Glitch Mastodon" or "Hometown Mastodon" work just like Mastodon but have additional features such as larger post sizes, rich text formatting or local-only posts.

Mastodon's server software is free and open source, so programmers can tweak it to make their own versions. (Untweaked Mastodon is often called "Vanilla Mastodon".)

You can find good Glitch and Hometown servers to join or move to at:

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodo…

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/hometown-masto…

#FediTips #Mastodon


Glitch Mastodon | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Я все понимаю в том, как волшебно китайцы переодят названия товаров, но

Фигурка Yakuza протагонист Кирю Кадзума , Горо Маджима/ Like A Dragon Goro Majima action figure strong man doll (17см) Подарки для болельщиков


Заставило поржать снова. Для болельщиков.
БОЛЕЛЬЩИКОВ.

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My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
#funkwhale #spotify #homelab #selfhosting #navidrome #koel @Run your own homelab @Homelab Deutschland

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Sorry, I can't resist showing you one more.
"One night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson"
youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9…
Note, performed by one single man, Jonas Wolf, he did all the voices.
#Music #Baroque #YouTube

One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson

If Clément Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) was the songwriter for Murray Head...One Night in Bangkok, words and melody in their original form by Tim Rice, Björn U...
YouTube
#youtube #music #baroque

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My mother is in the market for a new home-office PC, or will be soon. She's an accountant; she's retired now, but she still does taxes for our family and some accounting work for her church. The last time I helped her select and set up a desktop PC was in 2013. Now she uses the church's old office PC, which has a Skylake processor and a spinning hard drive (not even an SSD; I checked). So naturally, that machine's getting slow. 1/?
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Alex Hall

I ran an Intel NUC for two or three years with no problem. Nowadays, Intel has abandoned that idea, but companies like Minisforum and Beelink have run with it. I have an AMD 5600 machine on my desk right now that's about 4x4 inches, maybe 3 inches tall. I got it on sale for, I think, $279, and it came with RAM and an SSD. They probably cost more now, because of the RAM crisis, but I love tiny machines.

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I wonder how common the Eloquence phenomenon is in blind communities around the world.
That is, an old speech synthesizer made years ago and long since abandoned by its maker, which blind people tightly hold on to for one reason or another.
Two examples I'm familiar with are Neurosoft's SynTalk 1.6 in Poland, and IBM's ProTalker in Japan, and I'm curious if this happens in other places as well.
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Timothy Wynn

I mean this hasn't been abandoned and isn't comparatively as old, but I know of many folks who still use this Vietnamese SAPI5 speech engine which essentially plays audio files in sequence. It was initially released in 2004 with a southern voice reading three different encodings and updated in 2009 with a northern voice according to the timestamps within the installer:
saomaicenter.org/en/smsoft/vnv…

Sao Mai VNVoice | Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)

Sao Mai VNVoice is the first usable text-to-speech engine with screen reading software on Windows for Vietnamese language.
Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)

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Please CW child abuse!

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#childabuse #EpsteinFiles #epstein #socialskills
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No sleep. I'm busy implementing proper chunking into the SoftVoice-Say program, of course. What else? Codex sucked at it, it did a half-assed job. So now I'm manually writing up patching section prompts to GPT-5.2 Pro instead, because it'll actually build it, unlike Codex which prefers to make minor changes in the file and do one single task from many. That's the downside of Codex. Think of it more like a code review friend who can do quick repo scanning and read context if you tell it what files and where. However, Codex won't write you a new feature in your program from scratch, regular GPT is still way better for that.

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This is a survey all #Discord users need to fill out {edit - seems they closed it within a day?}. Discord wants to know if we want AI to run the app. It'd be using data from pictures, conversations, voice notes, live streams, art, 'learning' from us in the app if they don't get strong enough pushback.

Let them know how you feel before they ruin that app for everyone as well.

It's an [assumed - see replies] official survey and it doesn't even take 5 mins. Please boost and share in your servers too.
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe…
#genAI #AIslop #AI #gaming #streaming #streamer #noToAI #gamer #gamers #womenWhoGame #resist

#gaming #discord #AI #streaming #Gamer #streamer #genai #notoai #aislop #resist #gamers #womenwhogame
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I'd like to ask folks to reflect for a moment.

Are you adding to a pile-on of criticisms? If so, is the target of those criticisms someone who might be exposed to undue amounts of judgment already because of who they are (whether through race, gender, queerness, etc)?

Might you be magnifying the underlying bias against the person with your actions? Are there more compassionate approaches to take? Do your actions help or hinder in the grand scheme?

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This is a masterpiece.
"When you play billy Joel like it's 1700"
youtube.com/watch?v=BRRLAQjKPx…
#Music #Baroque #YouTube
alt: Some clever guys and girls from Germany took four songs by Billy Joel and made it into a genuine Baroque concerto for two recorders and basso continuo.
In spite of what we're living through as humanity, we are blessed to live in such times. Imagine this before YouTube!

When You Play BILLY JOEL like it's 1700

1. Uptown Girl (Adagio) 0:002. For The Longest Time (Allegro) 2:553. And So It Goes (Grave) 5:594. She's Always A Woman To Me (Allegro) 7:39Words and melodie...
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#youtube #music #baroque

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"Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight": Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolis…

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her i…
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I guess this warrants a screenshot, as I keep seeing #GNOME + #Linux threads where folks freak out about the "middle click paste" gsetting being set to False by default in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettin…. Some ask "How dare they hide this into a gsetting to be toggled", or "they should add it to GNOME Tweaks" etc.…

Thing is, it's *already* in GNOME Tweaks, since 2016: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-t…

We were told multiple times the gsetting is not getting removed. I'll keep using it & move on. :blobcatcoffee:

Screenshot of the "GNOME Tweaks" GUI application, that provides a "Middle Click Paste" setting toggle in the "Mouse & Touchpad" section.

Make Gtk/EnablePrimaryPaste configurable through gsettings (2f9b1b3b) · Commits · GNOME / GNOME Tweaks · GitLab

Instead of relying on xsettings overrides, let's make use of a proper gsetting newly added for this purpose that can also be used by gtk+ on the wayland backend. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775847
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#linux #gnome

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Hey @FreakyFwoof have you taken a look at this?
I just got to the crossover reveal chapter, probably gonna be done in the next 30 minutes LOL, shortish chapters but I'm loving it.

Title: The Owl, the Witch, and a Man Named Anthony
Author: White_Squirrel Author
Summary: Holly Potter learnt at Gringotts that her father wasn’t James Potter, but some guy named Anthony Stark.
Tony Stark was very confused when a paternity claim was delivered directly to his bedroom by a snowy owl.
They begin a correspondence of letters, not knowing what bizarre revelations will come of it, all mediated by our favourite Arctic avian and told in real time as the letters are delivered.
Covers Hogwarts first year. Holly was born in 2000. Formerly “Flight of the Post Owl.”

archiveofourown.org/works/7440…

@Andre Louis
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