A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting.
Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜
#Meshcore seems to really work as a countrywide network. Today, I chatted with people from Liberec and Krkonoše, which are hundreds of kilometers away, and their messages went through just fine. All of this was possible with cheap, community-built devices.
@stepan Definitely it has integration with MQTT or there is an integration into Home Assistant. The question is if there is coverage. If there is, all you need is a small companion, if there isn't you'll have to install a repeater in some good location to cover the area for yourself and others. Urban areas such as Prague, Brno and Ostrava are well covered. Countryside, you still have to be lucky. You can check the current map of the network here: mapa.meshcore.cz/ You can use the Propagation function to see what coverage you would get from a spot you pick on the map.
I really should know the answer to this, but I can't find it anywhere. On Apple Watch, how do I set VoiceOver to use touch typing instead of standard typing?
Undiagnosed neuro-divergence is like playing a video game on the hardest settings, whilst everyone else is gaslighting you by saying it's on the easy mode.
When you are diagnosed (even self diagnosed) it's like realising you are on the hard setting, it doesn't make the game any easier... But you know you're going to struggle and can find ways to work around the problems to better suit your abilities.
trying to find a local radio station threw fastplay isn't working. if I could figure how how to listen to it in say winamp, I could save it as an m3u file and use fastplay to listen to it that way, but searching for it isn't working. if anyone wants to help me figure out how to find them, it is Power 96.5 WQHH.
Wow, I tried to search all three directories for that station, and it's apparently not on any of them. That's ... Highly unusual. Are you sure you have the station name correct?
@Bri I don't know if this is possible, but is there a way to make it notr announce song changes when a station starts playing another song, but it still shows up in the title bar if you want to look at what song is playing? it not, it is ok, but just thought I would ask.
@Bri hmmmmmm. I wonder why my winamp isn't announcing title bar changes? I mean, no big deal, just go away away from a players window and you don't hear them, but you don't know if you don't ask, right?
@Bri now why do I all of a sudden see you listening to one of my show at least for a little bit with some sort of pitch change on it? smile. I could just see you doing that.
@Bri I just wish my fucking body would let me do shows! I haven't done one sense november first of last year, so almost three months! although a big chunk of it is the weather, but still.
@Bri you know it is all your fault I barely use winamp anymore? lol. I have been using that program religiously for over 20 years. you come along with your fast player program, and I like it, and use it 99 percent of the time now! damn you! damn you to hell! ROFL! seriouly though good job on a program that you anitially made for yourself.
@Bri I haven't actually seen that myself yet, and you know jme, I will put something to the test, and yes, I have tried to crash it, or make it at least stall out a bit, and I haven't been able to yet.
It seems that radio-browser.info which is the site that Tweesecake uses, and likely FastSM as well, does not carry a stream for that station. Not saying it doesn't exist, just saying it doesn't exist on a popular open source radio listings platform, and its probably unlikely that the blindy apps will find it. If you do come across some sort of live stream like something on a web page from them, and want to attempt to extract a source, let me know, and I'll do some source code diving and see if they haven't entirely wrappered it. But probably most likely its not as easy as it once was. But if a stream exists that you want to see if can be turned into a Winamp or FastSM compatible stream, I welcome the challenge.
@adam someone actually found it for me. I don't know how, but it is on some funky streaming thing. not that you would want to listen to it, but here is the URL. I now have it saved in my favorites in fastplay.
@countrymetalhead @adam fastplay is a windows program that @Bri wrote. I don't have a URL where you can read about it, or download it, but it is a really cool very small audio player that is rather nice.
@adam @Bri Nice...I'd love to check it out. I mostly use Winamp, but if this is more streamlined, that'd be cool. Admittedly, for online radio, if I can't tell Alexa to play it, I often don't bother. You and @evilcookies98 are the exceptions to that.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 My app has three options including iHeart Radio and Tunein for searching for radio streams. It has a full featured radio dialog where you can import and export your stations list and search for new stations.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I really don't wanna toot my own horn here but, fuck it. The app is damn fast. It has a podcatcher dialog that if I say so myself, is faster than any other podcatcher I've ever used.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I haven't tried it for that purpose, as I have been using luna rss for that, but I just might have to give yours a go to see how it does. I can conferm that it is a very fast program though, and like I said really small!
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 you have every right to brag about it! I didn't think I would like it, as I haven't liked a lot of players I have tried threw the years, but yours has actually caused me to stop using winamp lately. the only thing you don't have is support for DSP effects. lol.
@Bri @countrymetalhead I took two people out, as I am sure they don't want to stay in this conversation. smile. so was trying to be nice. actually did you know that octimax was actually part of a program? for what I heard years ago, when someone left the company they took that part of the code, and turned it into a dsp effect.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 No. I don't even want to touch that. SiriusXM is really damn stingy about what can play their streams. A SiriusXM app for Mac and iOS recently got shut right the fuck down because of SiriusXM blocking the app, so ... I could maybe get it working and it might work for a bit, but eventually it would just get shut down.
@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I don't understand why they shut it down. It's not like the app was stopping users from paying for a subscription. You had to be subscribed to use it. So like, I don't understand what gain/motivation they had for doing that.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 I was one of his first beta testers too! he was like you, and actually listened when you either found a bug, or you thought something might work better if done a different way.
@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 the person doing the development for it was a hell of a person too! that makes me want to seriously consider getting rid of there service just for this reason. I mean I haven't been listening to them a lot lately, and when I did, it was on my google speaker, or an echo in the house, but still. to jsut do that after 10 fucking years, that is completely bullshit!
@winduptoy whatever thing Mozilla is doing or the way they (mis)communicate things, it has nothing to do with people applying to jobs. The majority of the applicants know nothing about Mozilla nor Thunderbird, they just use AI tools without any safeguard or awareness of how terrible they are and everyone in the world is dealing with the consequences of this unmitigated and unchecked cluster fuck that a bunch of billionaires unleashed on the web
Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.
You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening
Is it still common for screen reader users to miss incoming messages in a text chat while they're typing? Seems like it would be, since typing interrupts speech.
@ChrisDuffley Ideally, a script should be able to look for incoming messages and should provide a user setting to always speak them, at least as an option.
If the app in question makes it quick and easy to edit, delete, and send followups, I don't consider it much of an issue. E.g. Slack works well in these areas for me.
If performing those actions is laborious because of accessibility or other issues, I worry about it a lot more.
Yes, this has often happened to me, since some apps will make a noise or speak a message when one comes in, and some do not. Also sometimes I am just using Braille and not speech, and then any incoming message notifications are even easier to miss if my fingers are typing and not reading the display.
Definitely. If an app has no setting to allow playing sounds for incoming messages even if the chat is already open, I consider this a major issue. In 90 percent of cases I will go and check what is above my message if I sent it, but the 10% when I forget to do so could be crucial.
Probably. I have Slack and Element on my phone now. I like getting notifications there when I get messages, although it might easily get annoying if I'm in too many chat rooms.
Yes, especially in apps that don't even announce them, assuming that they don't even need to make a sound and fire a system notification if you're already in the window.
"When push comes to shove, are we willing to sacrifice our principles in order to survive?" Dr. Bashir- Inquisition, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #IDIC #Quote
Reminder: tomorrow we're back in the saddle, with premium REAPER prattle.
Join Scott and Jenny K for I'm Perplexed, what's next? Saturday at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK. It's a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
I got into an almost-argument and I need advice and/or guidance from you dorks (affectionate).
Some doop on Reddit says he rips his CDs into flac files. I said the only thing that flacs increase in this regard is file size; not quality. He insists they sound better as flacs.
So, I ripped two CDs on my l33t h8xor Linux PC. 192kbps mp3s, and flacs. I genuinely could not tell the difference on any of my headphones, including the planar magnetic supernerd audiogasm cans. And I mean it: Zero difference.
Have I fallen into confirmation bias, or is there a real difference?
There will be a difference, nowadays it'll be teeny tiny and honestly whether it matters is mostly in the mind-y, but it is still technically valid to say that flac is the higher quality of the two. If you want to hear the difference in isolation, post the two files and I can rustle up a null test easily for ya.
Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…
I have an analog mixer. It sounds big and awesome when I listen to the main outputs connected directly to my monitors. But when I run my second set of main outputs into my computer via Ferrofish converters and an RMI ADAT-->USB interface (the Digiface), everything sounds...flat and lame. And I definitely lose significant amounts of bass response.
@BorrisInABox oooh, this does sound like the kind of thing that can happen with phasing. I have no idea how to look into that in this case, but I'll check into it.
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Using Claude code to analyze PCB files and generate a board support package
Hardware may be hard, but software is a slog, especially when it is time to create a board support package definition for new dev boards.
> An engineer using Quilter completed the two-board system with 12 hours of cleanup on the baseboard instead of the 238 hours quoted for a manual layout, and 26.5 hours of cleanup on the System-on-Module (SOM) instead of the 190 hours quoted for its manual layout. In total, 38.5 hours of human input replaced 428 hours of estimated manual effort.
Project Speedrun shows how one engineer used Quilter to compress a quarter of PCB layout into a week—turning quarterly design cycles into weekly learning loops.
@feld extremely cringe. I love that the ONLY "metric" being applied here is "can I do the things in Y number of hours which is smaller than X number of hours and therefore this must be 'better' just because I'm spending less time on it?" just...garbage. worthless
@alyx_woodward I don't remember the name of the paper at the moment so I can't provide a citation, but there seems to be evidence that it can do much more efficient PCB layouts than human designs
We're going to see some very interesting things come from this
@feld I will be blunt: "efficient" really doesn't mean much coming from the typical high-tech person. In practice, it seems to mean only that if the high-tech person is doing something *faster*, they pretend to themselves that it's also better and more "efficient".
So the slop machine does a design faster. How do you know it's not also garbage? LLMs can't tell the difference between garbage and good information. How would you know the PCB layouts produced by an LLM trash machine are actually any good?
1. Open Google 2. Search "fuck ICE" 3. Close Google 4. Open YouTube 5. Search "fuck ICE" 6. Close YouTube 7. Open Spotify 8. Search "fuck ICE" 9. Close Spotify 10. Open Amazon 11. Search "fuck ICE" 12. Close Amazon 13. Open Walmart 14. Search "fuck ICE". 15. Close Walmart 16. BUY NOTHING 17. BUY NOTHING 18. BUY NOTHING 19. JUST KEEP SEARCHING THE TERM 20. MAKE IT TREND 21. MAKE IT TREND EVERYWHERE 22. FUCK. ICE.
There is a tension inside tech work right now between the fear of repercussions and the reality that we need to say “stop working with this fascist regime”
Many more progressive rank-and-file tech workers stopped speaking out after the 2024 election as executives cozied up to Trump. For some, the recent killings in Minneapolis by federal agents mark a turning point.
More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.
If you’re a tech worker with the means, help families who have been stuck in their homes for weeks unable to work or live their lives who need help with food or rent
Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:
1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM. 2. We pull up to charge the car. 3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card. 4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running: - GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS - LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS 5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API). 6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country". 7. We give up and drive to another charging station.
This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K"
We're now using our own autonomous system and IP space for 3 of our networks. We run 2 entirely separate anycast DNS networks for our authoritative DNS and have a simpler unicast setup on a bare metal server at Xenyth which we'll be using for more soon.
Our anycast networks are deployed with 2x IPv4 /24 obtained we quickly obtained for free from ARIN via NRPM 4.10 + NRPM 4.5.
We could use our own IPv6 space everywhere we have BGP if we wanted to do that since we have a /36 which can be expanded into more space reserved for us.
ARIN has approved our request for an IPv4 /22 via their waitlist but it will take around 18 to 36 months for the waitlist to progress to our request. For now, we're using an IPv4 /24 loaned to us for free by a Romanian LIR supporting GrapheneOS for our unicast Toronto IP space.
Our current bare metal server at Xenyth is sponsored by them and used as an update mirror which is using our IP space. However, our main use case for the IP space in Toronto is for our mail server which we're planning to host on-premises and tunnel the traffic through Xenyth.
Xenyth has support for routing to multiple servers announcing the same publicly routable IP space by announcing smaller blocks from specific servers so we can also pay for additional Xenyth bare metal servers or VPS instances. We'll likely be using it a fair bit in the future.
Our plan for our IPv4 /22 from the ARIN waitlist is deploying a single /24 in each of Toronto, Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle. Once we have a /22 deployed for North America, we'll qualify for getting out-of-region space on ARIN via the waitlist or transfers for Europe, Asia, etc.
@alwayscurious BGP is how internet routing works. It's the only way for us to announce our own IP space with our own Autonomous System (AS). In order to do it, we need providers with BGP support by paying for transit directly for colocated servers in a DC or using providers supporting it for customers on their servers which is the case with Xenyth, Misaka.io and Vultr. BuyVM also supports it but we moved ns2 from BuyVM to Misaka.io for better reliability, better transit and more locations.
@alwayscurious Using our own AS and IP space is what enables us to have own anycast networks for DNS instead paying for a managed anycast DNS service. We were previously using the extremely limited BuyVM managed anycast feature for ns2 and then more recently moved to Rage4 managed anycast for ns1 which uses zerotier + BGP to provide anycast routing via their own 21 locations without being able to directly control the routing. Hosting our own authoritative DNS is the main reason we got IP space.
@alwayscurious We also host our own email and need to move to using our own AS and IP space to avoid being negatively impacted by spam sent by other customers in the same IPv4 /24 or even the same AS. Providers offering VPS instances generally have terrible IP reputation especially for IP space they use for floating IPs but the instance IPs have bad reputation too. A floating IP is needed to avoid losing positive IP reputation and work done to undo inclusion in blocklists for an email IP though.
@alwayscurious We're going to be using the IP space we're announcing from Xenyth for multiple purposes including email. Our current plan for email is moving to an on-premises server connected to a Xenyth server via something like WireGuard to use our own IP space and AS for it. This will allow us to use our own clean IP space and clean ASN which aren't sending any spam to have very good IP reputation for email where we can avoid the issues we've had with service provider IP space / ASNs.
@alwayscurious We only own 2x IPv4 /24 right now which are both for anycast DNS so we have an IPv4 /24 that's loaned to us by a Romanian LIR until we get more space from ARIN which has been approved but takes a long time due to IPv4 exhaustion. ARIN gradually reclaims space from organjizations not paying their fees or not using the space where leasing it out to others would count as using it. The 2x IPv4 /24 they gave us are pristine space never used before from ARIN's final /8 from IANA.
@alwayscurious ARIN has an IPv4 /10 dedicated to IPv6 enablement with NRPM 4.10 being the policy for how that works. Both of our IPv4 /24 blocks are from NRPM 4.10. None of the other RIRs have a similar program. RIPE still theoretically gives a /24 to new organizations but it's only a single /24 compared to ARIN where you can get a /22 and then apply for more. ARIN's waitlist also moves faster since most of the legacy IP space which can be reclaimed was given t o North American organizations.
will you open the "server" side of the way you do "time" via https.
so we can use similar tech on our project (and maybe allow a "pool" of public time server using the same tech (reduce burder on your server, and allow us to have our own one) ?
(i ask only because DNS and Time is the two piece i always want to control inside my network myself (have my own stratum 1 server (run GPS time receiver))).
@lexinova We plan to eventually make it more configurable. Setting it up on the server side is quite simple since it simply involves setting the time in milliseconds in a header. It falls back the second precision standard date header if that's unavailable but it should be provided.
We use HTTPS rather than NTP with NTS because HTTPS is precise enough for end user devices. In fact, we made network time much more precise by lowering the permitted clock drift from 2 seconds to 50 milliseconds.
@lexinova Using HTTPS is much simpler and essentially doesn't add any attack surface since it's already being used for so much other functionality. HTTPS also nearly always works while NTP does not including via Tor which doesn't have UDP.
Bear in mind non-military GPS isn't authenticated and GPS is being widely spoofed especially in warzones. We use 6 different upstream sources with NTS for our servers where a minimum of 3 sources need to agree on the time in order for it to update the clock.
@lexinova Android's standard NTP implementation has a special exception in the base OS to bypass the Owner user VPN to work around UDP often not being supported along with the potential for time-based certificate errors blocking connecting to a VPN. We just accept the usability tradeoff of having the clock being set very wrong often breaking connecting to a VPN until the user fixes it. We avoid the clock being set incorrectly breaking HTTPS network time via custom certificate time validation.
@alwayscurious It's theoretically an issue but not one we expect to be a problem for us in practice especially on a provider like Xenyth. The same theoretical issue would exist buying used server hardware too. None of that hardware has good security in practice even if it's brand new. The CPUs might have reasonable security but the motherboards from ASRock, Supermicro, etc. definitely lack it. We plan to do colocation in the future but we're not ready to deal with that yet.
@alwayscurious It's an extremely bad time to build new workstations or servers due to the extreme RAM prices which are 500% what they were in mid-2025 which is an actual value and not an exaggeration.
With her death, the character Kevin McCallister from the original two 'Home Alone' movies, played by Macaulay Culkin, is now an orphan. Wait, is that even a thing?
Kevin's father, Peter, played by John Heard, died in 2017, at the age of 71, coincidentally, the same age as Catherine O’Hara.
@hj oh hey while you're on my mind, do you have any clue what could possibly be the cause for PleromaFE on Safari mobile not detecting the boundaries of the viewport properly? The pop up menu for the 3-dots on a post will pop *down* and draw off-page instead of popping *up* to fit on the screen like it does on my Android phone (firefox, dunno if I tested a chrome)
I suspect it's the same issue why the emoji picker will render off-page when you open it near the end of the page and magically render proper when you close it an reopen it. I've tried looking into why that would happen, but I ended up empty handed.
Crappy browsers remind of picrel which has something to do with rendering of flex boxes and for some users align-self: stretch. As far as I know it is only Chrome specific bug and I suspect it's a bug in the Chrome renderer itself.
oh my god are you kidding me, i just took a fresh look at this
the problem started when I migrated the Registry from being just filesystem backed to being database backed so it can properly garbage collect and we don't have 500GB of crap that we can't safely clean up
The normal Postgres database used by Rails is set to 'host' => nil so it knows to not use TCP but use the unix socket
The Registry database config default to 'host' => 'localhost' and then throws errors specifically during database migrations, not during normal operations
And how and why is this a thing? Travelling with this large trekking backpack has never been a problem even on airplaines and now I cannot take it in a train?!
Then I guess nobody should notice it. Like, people always travel with all kinds of 32kg range hold luggage on trains in Europe in my experience, for better or for worse
I tracked from Paris and didn't know they had such limitation. I traveled with a big backpack (for camping) and another one for daily use (20L) no one stopped me or mentioned it
Usually the luggage Racks are not really crowded. If it still is a reasonably structured and sized Backpack of some 15 more cm and no Monster of virtually the same size as you, it could fit. Just be sure to keep doorways and aisles clear.
Have a smile and your ticket ready at the door.
Never saw anyone measure anything while travelling there every second week.
It's really heartbreaking to see a technically superior OS (MacOS/iOS) turn into complete dogshit because the people running the show are clueless.
They had the best implementations of almost everything but decided to just keep making the user experience worse every release and letting the craziest bugs manifest and go unaddressed for years
I guess with Cook being so focused on making Apple a services-focused company it was bound to happen, but damn... they really ruined a technical masterpiece.
And worse, every release they make it even harder for a competent engineer to actually debug these kind of issues. What good is having Dtrace if you can't even use it because of SIP, etc?
from the top down… I think the issue is that Tim Cook doesn’t care about these products. I have to assume he uses a Mac, but sincerely believe he’d be perfectly happy with a Chromebook - likely spending most of his time in spreadsheets and Google slide presentations. I’m not even sure he’d notice the difference.
>They had the best implementations of almost everything but decided to just keep making the user experience worse every release and letting the craziest bugs manifest and go unaddressed for years
AFAIR Apple literally had no QA and testing their shit in production, if users didn't report shit they deemed stuff to be acceptable, and given their "we're right" stance it's no wonder it went to shit
Now with Feedback Assistant available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, it’s easier to submit effective bug reports and request enhancements to APIs and tools.
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You can use the Propagation function to see what coverage you would get from a spot you pick on the map.
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