imposssible. Our morons politician ( ) say they can't do it... so they can continue to post on it. Meanwhile they want age verification for the internet.
I hope everyone stays warm with this upcoming storm. I did talk to someone out in the midwest who said they only got three itches so here is to hoping.
I need to find a country that has travel advisory levels that are believable before the next time I travel. I'm willing to settle for "doesn't make me spit out my coffee laughing" as a plausibility metric.
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Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE. First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli
I've just about had it with this country, I feel like nothing meaningful is being done to stop this. How many more people have to die before we say enough is enough?
Having salted caramel hot cocoa playing Forza failing at it but having fun. also just hanging around looking to build new connections because life is short and I’m here for a good time. to build a beautiful bonds with people!
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
It’s bad enough to lose one of your kids, regardless of age. Trust me - I know. In this case, though, having to directly confront the fucking regime is something grieving parents shouldn’t have to deal with.
@Bri While looking at the plaintext stuff, I got distracted by relative times. I don't know how far I might get on it. Before I do anything, are you already working on relative times in the invisible interface? I don't mean to rush you or anything, I just don't want to mess with something you're already doing anyway.
Cool. Didn't want to duplicate efforts. The coming weeks are going to be extremely busy, so I don't know if I'll get too far, but I should at least have tomorrow to play with it. Do you let people create branches in your repo, or is a fork the way to go for pull requests?
So apparently, there's an Internet outage, as a result of a power outage, in Greenland's capital, according to the @Netblocks people. First time I've seen Greenland have such a serious connectivity loss as to cause a report. Wonder just how that may have happened... or whose responsible. Some how, I doubt speculation need go far to imagine a potential cause and actor.
Okay, I'm having too much fun with this. Here's a stupid voice of my own creation (no idea why the pitch isn't right) reading a stupid story I wrote about a hyper-intelligent hedge trimmer. I'm sure @BorrisInABox and @cordova5029 will get a chuckle out of this.
I knew the history of how Klingon started. James Doohan, who portrayed Scottie, actually developed like twelve of the first Klingon words back in the day.
Because much commentary is now being posted about the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents, and because my previous thread about this today has grown long, I'm starting a separate thread about this now.
"There is some dispute now whether that was ICE or Customs and Border Patrol, wrestling an individual to the ground. He appeared to be motionless."
"One of the agents then pulled a gun and shot him repeatedly. That individual has now been taken to the hospital and pronounced dead."
Mary McCord then says that though all the information is not yet in,
"Just based on the video that I saw, I saw, I don't know, six or eight agents on top of a man on the ground and then shots fired and the man prone on the ground."
"And that just looked like a flat out execution. I mean, even if the man was trying to struggle, even if as early... early reports from DHS are that he had a gun.
There's just no way that he could have, with that many people on top of him, really be a threat that would justify that kind of use of force."
"If local and state law enforcement aren’t going to step up and do the job they swear an oath to do—protect our communities, the very people they’re supposed to serve—then someone else has to. Because while they stall, federal goon squads are roaming around in broad daylight, abducting and killing innocent people, and pretending it’s normal."
"It isn’t. And if nobody pushes back, it will never stop. …
This is not a call to violence, not a push for bloodshed, and not about taking the offensive against anyone. This is about self-defense, deterrence, and preservation, plain and simple."
Warning that video footage of this killing is graphic and disturbing, Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng say,
"A swarm of agents mob an individual, pushing him to the ground. After the person is surrounded, agents then shoot him multiple times. The shots appear to continue as the individual lies motionless on the ground."
It is the third shooting by Trump’s immigration agents in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, and comes after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
"The Star Tribune reports that federal agents attempted to order local police to leave the scene where the man was shot and killed by federal agents earlier this morning. According to the report, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused to comply with that demand and instead instructed his officers to remain on site and preserve the scene."
"The Minneapolis police chief has ordered his officers to preserve the scene, despite ICE reportedly ordering them to leave. ICE has arrested witnesses and transported them to the Whipple building."
"Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: 'I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?'"
"The old, wretched status quo is thrashing violently as it dies.
It’s time we grab a pillow and suffocate it to death.
Minneapolis is suffering one wave after another of brutal attacks. Children kidnapped. People beaten. Two murders that we have now witnessed with our own eyes."
"The man fatally shot by federal officers has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke with the Minnesota Star Tribune. Pretti was 37 years old and had an address listed in south Minneapolis."
"At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed the victim’s identity and said Pretti had no serious criminal history. O’Hara stated that law enforcement records showed only minor infractions, including parking tickets. Law enforcement sources reiterated Saturday that Pretti had no known violent or serious criminal background."
"On January 24, 2026, 37-year-old U.S. citizen Alex Pretti was repeatedly and fatally shot by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States."
"The incident was the third shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in seventeen days, following the killing of Renée Good and the shooting of a Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and occurred amid mass protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
"An analysis by The New York Times found that several agents wrestled a man onto the sidewalk, one officer struck him with an object, and then ten shots were fired within five seconds."
"The Trump regime has murdered another citizen. And now they’re lying about it. The cover-up is in full swing. But we have the footage. From multiple angles. We’ve heard from multiple witnesses. And we have cameras on the ground, thanks to our partners at Status Coup."
"Multiple witnesses were on scene. One described it to us as “an execution.” Within minutes, Minneapolis police moved to secure the area. They were blocked by federal agents. According to the Star Tribune, federal officers attempted to order local police away from the scene. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and instructed his officers to preserve the site."
"That refusal mattered, because video evidence from multiple angles began circulating almost immediately. The footage shows at least ten shots fired. It shows the victim’s hands appearing empty. It does not show him using a weapon, reaching for one, or threatening anyone. It shows a man shot to the ground and then shot again.
Federal officials quickly claimed the man threatened them with a gun. The videos do not support that claim."
"If the man was armed, the footage suggests the weapon was holstered. That is consistent with what Minneapolis police have already said publicly: the victim is believed to have been a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. At no point in the available video does he brandish or point a weapon."
"Video analysis disproves the entire Trump regime’s narrative. Freeze frames show agents firing as the victim recoils. Other frames show an agent pressing a gun into the victim’s chest while shots continue. The man’s hands remain visible and empty. The claim that this was a necessary response to an imminent threat is contradicted by the visual record."
"The video is, you know, is hard to explain other than as a cold-blooded, you know, execution, just as you described it. They pepper sprayed him directly in the face, which we see them constantly doing as well, took him to the ground, and he was on the ground, and then he was shot,and then they backed off and shot him like a half dozen more times."
"He [i.e., the federal agent doing the killing] emptied a clip into this guy who was lying on the ground already. I mean, it was just absolutely horrific, and I caution people against watching the video without being emotionally, you know, kind of prepared for it."
"In graphic video now circulating on social media, six federal agents appear to wrestle the man to the ground in front of the New American Development Center. One of the agents hits the man three times with what appears to be a firearm."
"Open carry is legal in Minnesota. The videos I have seen do not support the idea that he was trying to shoot ICE agents.
We also know that ICE tried to prevent local law enforcement from securing the scene and collecting evidence. ...
The simple truth is that none of this would have happened if Trump had not sent thousands of out-of-control, masked agents to terrorize people in an American city."
"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”
"Bystander videos depict a gruesome scene in which Pretti was swarmed by a mob of agents, who shot him repeatedly. Multiple shots appeared to have been fired at him when he was already lying motionless on the ground."
"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …
Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."
"Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. …
As now happens 100% of the time, these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene."
"My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort of observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretti never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents."
"What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretti’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times. …
The goal is submission and the strategy to achieve that goal is escalation. Miller, Homan and the leaders of ICE and CBP believe that they’ll come out on top at every step up the ICE/CPB escalation ladder."
"They’re communicating this to the protestors and activists and the communities in which they’re operating: the more you resist us, the worse it will be for you and eventually you’ll have to back down. …
They believe public resisters will eventually have to knuckle under. So they’re happy to keep escalating. Because they have more and bigger guns and eventually those who oppose them will have to give in."
"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero. 😒"
"Another day, another dead Minnesotan. Shot in the street while getting pinned down by masked federal thugs. And Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino wasted no time putting out narratives that don’t at all square with the videos we’re seeing. But who you gonna believe? Them, or your lyin’ eyes?"
"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, I’m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."
This is the second time that I have had OmniDescriber just totally lose my configuration. This time, I did literally nothing as far as I can tell. Windows Defender says my computer isn't infected with anything, but I'm still managing to encounter this issue. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I'm not sure I can rely on this program anymore. If anyone has any thoughts on this feel free to let me know. Thanks.
The fact it's no longer a local tool I can put my API keys in, it's a cloud solution where I have no idea what models they use internally and don't pay for my API usage, rather I pay for the pricing they decide to put up. I'm happy for the developer he got this, chance, and yes accessibility wise the web version is ok and does what it's supposed to, but well. I preferred the local native app, I had control, it couldn't go down, etc etc.
Also it would have come a lot quicker. Does anybody still remember the ridiculous OpenAI developer requirements (back in the day when they were the only game in town) that heavily discouraged experimenting on their platform.
I was using Debian earlier today--the GUI, not over SSH. I think I see why Linux isn't more popular. I had a .txt file, and I pressed enter on it. Any computer user would expect the file to open. At worst, they would expect to be prompted to choose an application. Nope. Debian popped up a dialog saying the file was executable, and asking if I wanted to run it. Come on, Linux. It's a text file! What are you doing? This is (part of) why nobody likes you.
Friendly reminder that Signal—while maybe not perfect—is a much better choice for communication than RCS, especially if you are communicating anything sensitive. Doubly true if you are on iOS or communicating with anyone who is, as Apple still does not even use end-to-end encryption for RCS like Google does on Android.
instead of Signal, #DeltaChat is a much better alternative, super easy to use while decentralized, without requiring phone numbers or any private data at all, with good multi-device and multi-profile support (you can have as many profiles as you want without needing extra SIM cards, this makes it good for the kids of the family as well!)
Signal is the second worst chat you can pick spyrecord is first. The only encryption you can trust by reading the code is Simplex. However the app ain't ready yet. Issues won't be worked out till 2027. ArcaneChat on the other hand is more then enough security wise for almost everyone.
@npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9 So here you are saying that this app that my parents and neighbors actually use is bad compared to some other things I have never heard of before, one of which won’t have an app until next year, and which aren’t used by any people I know?
@MisuseCase ArcaneChat is just a #chatmail client, you can use #DeltaChat that is the official client it is available in all platforms and it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support etc.
Yes & I look forward to when you change back the acc & password screen under relays to the way it was before. Why you made the email acc name no longer copyable is silly to me. You made it harder for me to put the address out where I need to adb. Other then that nice work & who controls webxdc.org is there anyway to report webxdc apps? There's a bunch of apps that I want to report for removal because the developer of those webxdc apps puts government propaganda at the footer of those apps. Software should not have your political views at the footer of it.
Yeah I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to do what I want. What I copy the email address for is at my descretion. Whether it's useful or needed for my use case is my decision. I appreciate your suggestion but I want to copy randomserial@instance.chat so in order to continue doing that I am sticking to the older version of ArcaneChat & won't update till I know that's back. When changes like that are made which make no impact & only hinder something that was working just fine I stop updating. If you do put it back so I can copy again let me know & i'll happily update. I hope you continue to improve & make it better for everyone. I like AC a lot just wish that webxdc had better content & regulation.
Copying an address is not putting anything at risk. Lets not be mellodramatic & blow things out of porportion. Since your guessing at what I use it for & just assume something wrong like I do it for unencrypted email which arcane chat cannot do. If someone wanted to send unencrypted email to that address your not stoping them by making something that was copyable grayed out. They will do it the only thing you've done as far as this goes is just made something useful disappear. If you really want to know I put it in kiosks when they say we need your email. & guess what I bypass their bs & no worries because it can't be accepted in inbox. So unless you can clarify some kinda exploit then there really is no reason why it had to happen. There's absolutely nothing wrong with copying bahdhdh9dhfje@your.instance.net
So you would allow an app into the store that has political views saying white men are the devil at the footer of every app? Maybe i'll upload my own webxdc apps & at the footer it will say fuck palastine & gaza end the irs save america. Political propaganda shpuld not be in apps.
I'm very relaxed. Giving feedback isn't crying mr.mellowdramatic it's feedback & you don't like it okay cool. I'm not gunna stop saying it though because thats my review on the app. You don't want to change it back okay don't that's just more review sauce for me. The way back is by not updating & if you kill older versions well then i'm just -1 to using the app & i'll try something like Cherogram which offers webxdc as well & then advertise it till there's a change that makes it worse then better.
Yep & when something is put into this world the experience made is the one kept. If by drowning in a glass of water you mean being public with review & experience then I will happily do so. If you didn't care you wouldn't be taking the time to anticdoting feedback as crying or drowning in a glass of water. If things get worse maybe I will look for an alternative one minus isn't going to make me go jump off. Theres so many factors to what makes a person stay or not.
Da fehlt noch der Punkt: "Was für eine Bank-App – und gibt es die auch 'libre'?" Solange es die nur im Spielzeugladen und beim Obsthändler gibt, werden wohl einige von uns damit nichts anfangen können 🤷♂️
Schon traurig, dass man sich von US-Diensten "unabhängig" macht, indem man sich an selbige bindet. Seltsame Logik…
Checked out a particular current dish washer model from Neff. Their website offers a 375 page (!) document full of Open Source licenses for it. For a fricking dish washer.
Now that I think about it, my Bosch induction cooktop had some open source licenses listed in the accompanying documentation. It doesn't have any sort of connectiovity.
It's a few years old, so I guess I got lucky. My (Bosch) oven has WiFi and Bluetooth symbols visible on the display if you look at the right angle, but no connectivity either.
somewhere once a long while back I made a joke with something like "my hair dryer stopped working, guess I'm gonna go yell at the curl guy" and... that's not entirely wrong, is it?
More than half of it is just listing all the kernel contributors. 😂 Amazing. 📜 Back then, an 8-bit MCU was sufficient. Today, some i.MX6 or smth (U-Boot for i.MX is listed, again with some dozens of pages of authors)... wow.
Re source code requests: > The cost of performing your request will be charged to you. This offer is valid three years from the date of purchase or at least as long as we offer support and spare parts for the product.
At least they're compliant, which is nice, I guess? But I mean, installed on a laptop sitting on the countertop with a recipe open is about the closest I want cURL or Linux to be to a damn dishwasher.
Yes, BSH is Bosh-Siemens-Hausgeräte, Brands and same firmware on Neff, Siemens, Bosch, Gaggenau. Best entertainment with this fact: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-wa…
The Gambler - Pawn Shop Problem: Jim (Mark Wahlberg) yells at a pawn shop clerk.BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.fandangonow.com/details/movie/the-gambler-2014/MMV...
I requested the OSS sources for our Bosch dishwasher (Bosch and Neff are both BSH) we bought last year and they complied without hesitation, the 4.4 GB source archive even includes a short README.md build guide. The package contains curl 7.69.1 from March 2020.
The urge to connect every thing to the Internet astonishes me. I enjoy other people's observations and complaints about the Bidness World's belief that we are all idIoTs.
This thread reminded me of a story from a galaxy far, far away - timewise. Before the Internet. Even before FRED, the first PC. The story is "The Robot Millennia", in "Galaxies Like Grains of Sand" by Brian Aldiss, New American LIbrary (1960). It was prescient, and fun. But no IoT.
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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).
That's fucking scary. Me, to claude: OK, here's a 200 KB Mac OS crash report. It: *slurp* Oh, OK, so clearly the crash is coming from a wx raise call, something is attempting to raise a destroyed window. In 3 seconds. 3 fucking seconds. What?
umm, yes. Yes indeed. I mean I use gemini and ask "lay out the process you will follow", which it does. The process is astoundingly long. I say do it. It takes twenty seconds to do it. By no means does it do it perfectly, but most often, it does actually work, and there's allot of writing done.
@Bri #FastPlayer Any chance of having an option where playback rate can be adjusted by musical semitones? Also, in Winamp, when moving to a new track the title bar update is not announced, but with FastPlayer it is. Any chance of fixing this? Thanks.
Is anyone else having trouble creating an account on Matrix.org? Two of my friends keep getting “CAPTCHA verification failed, please try again.” I just tested it myself and keep getting the same error. @matrix #matrix
What's up with FastSM using YTDLP but saying Youtube links have "no audio" when hitting CTRL+enter? Seems weird that the player can't play its own links. Probably me missing something obvious.
@Bri Hmm. It detects the links as playable, but still says unsupported file format. Definitely progress in the right direction though I think. I just wish I knew why it was claming that the format was unsupported.
@Bri Hmm. seems the unsupported file format thing was due to the vlc libs. If I only use yt-dlp, it can't open the file apparently. Very weird. I'm honestly more perplexed than anything else.
Is there a magic tap command option on braille displays for starting/stopping dictation etc? Using a Focus 14 and checked the commands list but nothing close to it seems to be an option
Hi @Tamasg I'm trying NVSpeechPlayer 2026 v10, I'm not sure if this is the latest version, but the voice sounds a bit different, even when using Adam, than the original SpeechPlayer. Were there some changes that could change how the overall voice quality sounds? It's hard to pinpoint it, but the voice itself sounds less harsh and consonents like P sound very short now. I see several settings in the voice dialog but I have no idea what any of them do, but they did not seem to make much of a difference. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks.
lol that's not a setting, we moved the experimental sound into the main branch because most people prefered it for the smoothness. if you really liked the sawtooth wave used by the original version just swap speechplayer.dll from v7 at eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… - it's openable as a zip, swap speechplayer.dll from that one into yours and it'll sound like the old voice.
Will this get rid of the weird fading in on some phonemes too? Or will I have to use the phoneme editor? I do want to try to fix some stuff with US English in general, so I'm planning to look at that too.
hm it should, definitely test if it's the player or the pack and see. I definitely don't notice phoneme fading here but maybe I don't read the same stuff.
Even with that change, I still hear it on US English. For instance, reading your latest reply here, I can hear it on words like "same," "fading," and other words with A in them.
yeah, there were like 3 missing phoneme fields: preFormantGain. , GlottalOpenQuotient, ETC. these got added in the later pack and are now tunable per vowel, in the past they would just be set to the engine default and everything got the same treatment. So this allows more flexibility but some things could have shifted with the change. Every letter now needs to define these new 3, they are very important for shaping and leaving them out in the past until now has been a disaster.
so The global eɪ tie caused issues with US sounds like “same” since it applied across regions. We’ve now limited the tie to only eɪ followed by schwa (eɪə), which should revert the US behavior back and remove the fade. Thankfully it should be a rule change only not a phoneme change. Thanks for spotting it.
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